FX and Opty

[Fuzija]

Anyone knows of a place where you can get reasonable prices for AMD64 Dual Core FX or Dual Core Optys?
2 MB cache
Socket 939

All the places i looked were quite expensive. If someone know a good deal on euther one of those, please, let me know

Thanks

 

[tersome]

There's no such thing as a good deal on a new fx...

2MB l2 cache doesn't really matter on AMD chips. Just get a 3800 x2 and overclock it.

 

[Vegitto]

Opteron 165, 170, 175 or 180 is what you're looking for. Or the FX-60 .

 

[Fuzija]

Originally posted by: tersome
There's no such thing as a good deal on a new fx...

2MB l2 cache doesn't really matter on AMD chips. Just get a 3800 x2 and overclock it.

how well do x2 3800 overclock?

 

[Vegitto]

That all depends, Fuzija. Some only get 100 MHz, some can be fired up to 3.0 GHz. It's luck of the draw, really. Don't count on anything.

 

[Fuzija]

I have been reading that there are stepping E4 and E6 so I guess E6 is better?

Also I think I will go with this one, and save up the rest of the money to buy me self another GPU and put it in SLI with my current card

I guess that would be the best bang for the buck

Any great deals on x2 3800 and ASUS 7600 GT atm?

 

[Vegitto]

Check the Hot Deals Forum...

 

[Fuzija]

What is the difference between E4 and E6 revision anyway?

 

[Vegitto]

I'm not sure. E6 is newer, but I don't know if that makes it better..

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: Fuzija
What is the difference between E4 and E6 revision anyway?

pretty much just updated on die memory controllers.

 

[Fuzija]

Is Opty 146 any good? Good oc potential?
Mwave hase them on sale for 139$ US

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22047

 

[Fuzija]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562

Anyone know which stepping this is? E4 or E6?

Hopefuly someone from newegg is reading this cuz I think I'll go with this one

 

[Makaveli]

The guy on that newegg customer review comment is wrong. All E4 and E6 Chips suffer from 2T command rate with 4X512MB dimms

 

[Fuzija]

so both E4 and E6 have non dsl silicon? and the only problem is when using 4 dimms?

 

[Bobthelost]

2T only happens with 4 sticks of RAM, yes. I have no idea about DSL silicon.