After only a brief time on this forum, researching and gathering info on my new system. I started out looking to get a 64x2 3800 then started to see the possible benefits to get a Opteron 165 instead but I couldn't quite convince myself that the Opteron was faster in oem mode or much faster in overclock. The reason being I can't get my head around the fact that the Opteron is 200mhz slower.
So know what am I thinking, yep I'm going to see how much an Opteron 170 is at the moment its $115.00AUD more. Now I'm comparing apples with apples right? both the 64x2 and 170 are 2ghz chips and overclocking would make the Opteron a faster chip and run cooler at the same time.
Second evil discovery is ram, initially I was just going to get 1x 1gb but since researching I've discovered that to get any real benefit I should populate both ranks inorder to use duel channel. So know I'm looking at getting another stick of 1gb.
I am a little unsure still on whether I can just get by with 1 stick of ram first then get another down the track. Oviously with only one stick it wont be duel channel but that wont bother me too much for now. What I really want to know, is ram made to be single or duel, or is it a function of the motherboard once you have 2 ranks populated it automatically operates in duel channel mode?
So see what you guys have done, you've made spend more money, lol. This along with other forums is a great resource but beware to all the newbies, you will get biten by the "cool rig clubbers"
Thanks to all the imputs to my newbie questions so far.
So know what am I thinking, yep I'm going to see how much an Opteron 170 is at the moment its $115.00AUD more. Now I'm comparing apples with apples right? both the 64x2 and 170 are 2ghz chips and overclocking would make the Opteron a faster chip and run cooler at the same time.
Second evil discovery is ram, initially I was just going to get 1x 1gb but since researching I've discovered that to get any real benefit I should populate both ranks inorder to use duel channel. So know I'm looking at getting another stick of 1gb.
I am a little unsure still on whether I can just get by with 1 stick of ram first then get another down the track. Oviously with only one stick it wont be duel channel but that wont bother me too much for now. What I really want to know, is ram made to be single or duel, or is it a function of the motherboard once you have 2 ranks populated it automatically operates in duel channel mode?
So see what you guys have done, you've made spend more money, lol. This along with other forums is a great resource but beware to all the newbies, you will get biten by the "cool rig clubbers"
Thanks to all the imputs to my newbie questions so far.
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