Opteron 165

[sandmannight]

I was going to buy one and overclock it. But I wasnt going to do it right away. So my question is if 1.8 is slow and I need to OC right away or if 1.8 is a good speed and will last for a while before I need to OC it?

Thanks

 

[o1die]

1.8 is plenty fast with the onboard memory controller. Overclocking mostly benefits benchmarks in gaming. I tried overclocking, but had to lower memory speed to 166 to make it work, so it didn't seem much faster in non gaming applications.

 

[sandmannight]

I would be gaming but if overclocking at the moment doesnt make a big increase I dont want to do it so my question is. Will 1.8 do for gaming right at the moment? Will it lag a lot at 1.8? Thanks

 

[DrBlofeld]

For alot of games it is the Graphics card(s) that count. So the answer to your questions depends on the type of gaming you are doing. Also, eventhough the opteron has 1MB of cache per core, it is outpaced by cores with 512K cache and higher clock speeds. If you do get one, you should overclock it right away. Some opterons overclock well and some don't do as well. It's the luck of the draw.

 

[dedla]

I thought if it's gaming it'd still depend heavily on your video, unless it's a rare sexy game like Half-Life 2 that offloads some processing over to the CPU.

From what I've read the 165 is a great processor, the 170 and 175 are 2Ghz and 2.2Ghz respectively. Last I checked 200Mhz won't give you near as much of a jump in games as the graphics card will.

I've also read that the 165 overclocks pretty decent just on the stock cooler, so if you pinpoint it as being the cause of any lag, just bump it up to 2 or 2.2 Ghz.

 

[ZOldDude]

Most people notice that 2.6 runs alot nicer than the stock 1.8! :lol:

 

[hergieburbur]

I would be gaming but if overclocking at the moment doesnt make a big increase I dont want to do it so my question is. Will 1.8 do for gaming right at the moment? Will it lag a lot at 1.8? Thanks

Well, I just bought one that has a very modest overclock to 1.9 currently, since I don't have the time to work on getting it higher, and it runs fine in everything I do, including Oblivion.

BTW, Steelers rule!

 

[sandmannight]

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BTW, Steelers rule!

GRRR... Get off my thread...Just kidding... *cough* Freaking Kimo van olhafen *cough*

THEY WOULD HAVE WON WITH PALMER AND YOU KNOW IT

 

[luminaris]

I was going to buy one and overclock it. But I wasnt going to do it right away. So my question is if 1.8 is slow and I need to OC right away or if 1.8 is a good speed and will last for a while before I need to OC it?

Thanks

I have the 165 and I ran it at stock speeds when I first got it and it games fine at stock. 1.8 doesn't seem like alot but with AMD, they're so efficient and the architecture is superior, they run very fast.

If you wanna know, I play WOW, COH/COV, FEAR, etc.

 

[hergieburbur]

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BTW, Steelers rule!

GRRR... Get off my thread...Just kidding... *cough* Freaking Kimo van olhafen *cough*

THEY WOULD HAVE WON WITH PALMER AND YOU KNOW IT

Obviously there is no point in debating now, because you can't say one way of the other, but I do think the Steelers had a better team last year and would have won. This year may be different, depending on how early Palmer is healthy.

 

[sandmannight]

He should be there by the begining of the season. Thank god kitna is gone because it aint worth the cash. My god I would rather have freaking alex smith of the 49'ers starting

 

[gOJDO]

1.8 is plenty fast with the onboard memory controller. Overclocking mostly benefits benchmarks in gaming. I tried overclocking, but had to lower memory speed to 166 to make it work, so it didn't seem much faster in non gaming applications.

you should learn and know what are you doing before overclocking.
when you decrease the mem divider to 333(166 DDR) and increase HTT to 240, the actual DDR clock will be 400(200 DDR). 240/200*166=200.
Therefore you have to decerase the HTT multiplier to 4 becouse it is not recomended that HTT excedes 1GHz.
See my config in my signature, I am running my A64 3200+ 2GHz at 2.7GHz (270x100), HTT at 1080 (4x270), DDR at 450(270/200*333=450)