Tom's Hardware: Topic AMD 64 939 - 3500+ or Operon 248 - 2200 MHz
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The Opteron 200 series is for 2 CPU Socket machines.
You should be looking at the Opteron 100 series for 1 CPU Socket machines.
Both those processors are single core btw.
AMD Website:
http://www.amd.com/
AMD Processor Comparison Website:
http://www.amdcompare.com/
AMD Opteron FAQs (covers 100, 200 and 800 series, aswell as low power varients):
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processor [...] 06,00.html
Same clock speed, but god look at the Opteron 148 unless you are getting a 2 CPU Socket board. Or look at the Opteron 175 if you are after a 2.2 GHz dual-core Opteron, Socket 939 varient, for a board with only 1 x 939 pin CPU Socket
The Opteron 148/248 have twice the L2 cache of the Athlon 64 3500+ aswell, which will give them a slight edge in some applications.
You won't notice any difference between the two in gaming, unless you are running 2 x Opteron 248 on one board, which is what the 200 series was made for. 
The more people that bookmark those three links the better btw, I am getting sick of answering the same question every other day, just do a search.
3500/3700 are the best price ratio... some would say a 3200... processor isnt a bottleneck, video cards are... after a certain point processor speed doesnt make a difference in fps... id say get the 3700+, its the only one besides the 4000+ with 1mb cache, the 3700 is just as fast as a 3800 and cheaper i believe, but barely. 3700 IMO is the best price/performance ratio (i have 1 
there fast) good luck with ur build... also stay away from socket 940, there server grade chips/processors and not really meant for gaming...
Hey, many thanks for the tips! 
I'll go for the 939 3700+
Is there a big difference between "San Diego"and "Toledo" (practically same price) ?
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