Amd athlon64 3200 or AMD Opteron 146

[Coolzer]

Showdown....Which of these two are better.....

I want to overclock, play latest games, run Photoshop, and encode DVD's

[nwo75200]

Well, the first thing you said is you want to OC.

Get the Opteron 146, there, done! A regular A64 cannot come even close to the OCing capabilities of one of these new Opterons. The Opterons can easily get past 2.5GHz. Their OCing average is over 500MHz, while the regular A64s maximum would be around 500MHz OC.

An Opteron is basically a specially picked A64 core, so there are no performance differences if the two are runnning at the same clock speed. Meaning that the Opteron (so far known as a server CPU) will do just as good in gaming as the A64.

[johnnyis42]

good point... i see alot of voodoo that people mention about why opteron and why not opteron.... but yeah, it all comes down to the fundimental differences between the A64 and the opteron, which boils down to the model numbers. 1xx is single chip opteron, 2xx is dual, 4xx is quad, etc. that is the only difference. some may have different cache sizes and what not, but the cores function the same. the opterons just carry a reliability factor with their name and price, and so they can take a bigger beating and still keep on going with respect to the A64.

[#43 fan]

So, get the Opteron. Better OC'ing capability

[SpaceSquad]

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnyis42

1xx is single chip opteron, 2xx is dual, 4xx is quad, etc..

Naw, that's for socket 940

the socket 939 one's are what we're discussing. The singles range from the 144-154 and the duals from 165-175.

edit/ and those numbers aren't really for telling how many cores there are. There are 8xx series s940 opterons too. And they are certainly not 8-cores

[HeadBand]

no its not the cores with the s940 numbers....its the ammount of cpu's you can use on a single board

[SpaceSquad]

Quote:

Originally Posted by HeadBand

no its not the cores with the s940 numbers....its the ammount of cpu's you can use on a single board

yup

The s939s are completely different. The opterons are actually more like FX series cpus

[buckaro]

Get the opteron, they kick ass for OC'ing...and are generally good anyway, for the price(about the same atm i think) its worth it for OC'ers easily

[Coolzer]

i guess it is opteron all the way then!
When is amd going to release a new socket to take the place of the 939....anyone know

[cableuser]

I heard they were to release the new M2 socket sometime this year.