Opteron or Athlon?

its an opty better than an athlong

im looking at these 2 they are evenly prices if the opty is better i'll get that


AMD Opteron 246 Troy 1GHz HT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103617

VS

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz HT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103535


the opteron has a bigger L2 cache

alright that bring sme to this question

if i buy a socket 940 motehrboard can i only run 1 CPU? instead of 2?

really?

so like i can completely disregard one CPU socket and jus trun one CPU until i have enough moolah to buy another?

thats really cool

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welcome but listen to mike(madmodmike) he knows ALOT MORE ABOUT SERVERS THAN I DO I ONLY BUILD PCS FOR THE REGULAR GUY who doesnt need a comp that can handle up to 100ppl at a time accesing it for info

That board has alot of features. The SATA II / PATA and RAID is nice, and the fact it has SLI is great. The 2 things that worry me are 1) It's size. It's a standard ATX board (12" x 9.6" ) while normal Dual Opteron (or any server board/workstation board for that matter) are Extended ATX (12" x 13" ). That board is very small, the CPU's are close to the RAM and your video cards are real close to the CPU, which would inhibit large heatsinks. And 2) The RAM. I am not sure if this is true as I have only recently seen this board, but it appears that this board has 6x DIMM's for 1 CPU.

That means that if it's true, one of the CPU's has to fetch RAM through the first CPU (Say bye to NUMA) and that is just crap. But, since you're probably only going to use 1 CPU for awhile, that board might be nice. I would still recommend getting the board I said, unless you want SLI.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

i went to look for ram and danm kingston hyper X ram costs like 200 bucks for 1 gig kit of 2

do u kno any cheap ram i can ue with that mobo?


ye si like th eSLI option that way when time comes to mess with my system i can just buy anotehr look alike card instead of buying a newer more expensive one

The nForce Professional chipset (on some motherboards) can support SLI. That board seems to be able to support it. Pengwin, are you looking for 2 1GB sticks? If so, you're going to pay alot of money for them, no matter what you buy. I recommend the Corsair XMS for about $220 I believe it is, check newegg for it. Make sure it's ECC and Registered memory.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

Pengwin, look to my first post, it linked you to RAM and Heatsinks for that RAM, buy 2 of those sticks, each is 512MB and $70 each. Add in the heatsinks, $82 for each stick, that's the best price you'll get.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

ok man and peng 2 things are you getting the opty 1 or 2 sereis and never get kingston only good brands like ocz crucial and corsair

dvdpiddy logging off good night everyone

but i mean...whats the big differnece between kignston and corsair its the same ram in the end

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145310

corsairs latency is lower

i lie

ok man long story short corsair is quality i gotta go now bye

dvdpiddy logging off good night everyone

Scrap the idea and get the following:

AMD Opteron 146 2.0GHz 1MB L2 Cache
ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
2 512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR500 RAM

That is a good system, if you need links, let me know.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

ok guys im supposed to be sleeping but heres something you should consider corsair ram for under 75$

Links:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice: Link $166.00
ABIT KN8-SLI: Link $109.99
Crucial Ballistix 512MB x2: Link $105.00
nVidia 7800GT: Link $$285.00

That system is under $700 and you get a better video card than the 6800GS and the RAM is great.

~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time

yes i am but i cant i gotta go tomorrow to the doctor really early