upgrade from Opty 170 to FX60

I'm thinkin about upgrading my CPU to the FX60 but I see it is not sold by newegg or TigerDirect. Other than Ebay, is there a good website to purchase older CPU's?

Nope. If the're not on Pricewatch then you're back at auction sites. You could try Anandtech or some other classifieds. You must have got some bad stepping in that 170, huh?

About the best Socket 939 CPU Newegg has is this. Considering the pricing of AM2 CPU's and the new AM2+ CPU's due out in less than 6 months, better off saving towards a new machine.

The opteron should easily clock as high or higher than the FX60. Do you use the memory divider/HTT divider to keep those 2 factors within spec? You shouldn't need any voltage increase to get 2.6 - 2.8 GHz. I've had an ASUS A8N-E mobo that wouldn't overclock worth crap, but 2 cheap boards (Asrock 939 dual sata and Biostar 6100) that get a 170 to 2.8 GHz easy.
If you really can't clock it up above 2.4 GHz, perhaps wait for next generation stuff as others said, though it is your money, after all. A socket 939 opteron @ 2.4GHz is still decent, if you have tight memory timings.

Wow. Thats sad. My Opty 165 hits 2.8 without a voltage bump. Yeah, it sounds like your having a problem with the HTT speed. Reduce the NB value to 4x. I'm not really sure if that will work, as my HTT adjustment is rather primitive compared to that. I know that you have to lower the HTT speed to 4x at ~230 bus speed, and 3x at ~260. This should allow you to overclock higher....with any luck.

I can't say, but there was a barebones with the fx for $400 a while ago, don't know what happened to it though. But the opty 170 should oc just as far as the fx, so I don't see the reason to buy an fx at this point

Nine out of ten voices in my head tell me to tell you to keep the Opteron.

sorry but g.b. cant complete a full sentance.

ahh, so that can't be bush then, he doesn't know how to unlock his door 8O

Fine

That I know....

Just makin' sure, as you seem to have no pupils in your eyes these days either. Tres cool.
another p.s.-that fool who's been giving you the one star thing's still at it, I see.

*Bows graciously to the kitty*

*Pets the kitty*

you might just want to save up for am2+, am2+ has the most steam out of any motherboard since it is backwards compatible with am2 and forwards compatible with am3, youll want to get some good ddr2 ram though since am3 is supposed to support ddr3 and ddr2, if you dont care about upgrading the mobo to am3 that is

My 939 4800 x2 maxes around 2600, but mine might be a combination of cpu/crappy g.skill value ram. It was a great deal, 2GB, with 2-3-2-5 timings, but can't overclock barely at all.

I'm tempted to pick up one of the cheapo 165 opty's from newegg, eventhough they're LCBE's and see if i could get to 2.8Ghz. But if I did that I would probably need some better ram.

By the time i got 2GB of decent DDR500 on top of the opty, I'd be spending a good bit of money. And no matter how much i dump into the 939, it gets blown away any basic overclocked C2D... bummer :?

I give some stars to ninja. F@#$ Bytch, all that bytch is good for is flaming.

Agreed. I had some problems with mine initially, but now the problems seem to be solved...as I'm running my 165 @ 2.7, no problems! (Will likely be pushing to 2.8 soon) Your 170 allows for lower bus speeds, thus lessening the strain on your mobo. Should be able to hit 2.8 fairly easily.

Best of Luck

Opteron 185 might be worth a look.

I have,

With an 11X and 333, 250fsb, I can boot at 2750, but it fails almost immediately on orthos...

My temps were manageable, but high voltage, and couldn't get it to hold...

I replaced the good stock cooler with zalman 9700, bc stock fan was annoyingly loud high pitch.

but you can reach 3ghz with an opty 170 though, so I see no point to buy an fx

I just noticed that, leaving the ht at 5 will definitely stop you cold turkey at 250ht, max you could get away with would probably be 225ht before you blow your ht/vrm

Hnn, I would consider the 165 since the price differences between the 939 dualies are kinda steep and the 165 will at least hit 2.8/2.9ghz from what I've seen

I actually have a lcb9e stepping. (The new one you refer to) My chip is actually a pretty good OC'er. I had it posting at about 3.1 at 1.45 vcore...but my MSI K8N Neo2 doesn't have chipset voltage adjustments, so its incredibly unstable at that point, which also happens to be about 340 bus speed ( 8O ), so I can't complain.

With the 165, a bus speed of 300 and a ram divider of "133" (not sure what type of BIOS you have, ratios or numeric) yields a ram speed of 400mhz and a clock speed of 2700 mhz, so that is a viable goal if your ram sucks.

Best of Luck

Boot times are pretty good. They improved a heck of a lot from what I did have, a WD 1200JB, a good drive in its time (2003) to be sure, but not exactly award winning nowadays. You might have noticed (probably not) that I used to have 3 and now I only have 2 raptors. My mobo only has bus locks on 2 SATA ports, so I couldn't overclock with 3 drives very well. (2.0~2.2 stable) With 3 raptors, I could get about 120mb/s average transfer rate with Sandra. With 2, I now get about 90 mb/s. Keep in mind that these are the old and small raptors. (I got them on ebay for $75 for 2 of them!) And that I'm using an ancient Nforce 3 chipset...so your performance may vary.

The XP startup for my 2 raptors and a fresh windows install is about 15 seconds from the end of the BIOS to the password screen. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. The biggest difference that I see with the raptors is how responsive everything feels. Its kind of like upgrading your ram...the loading times of EVERYTHING seem to go down. (C & C 3 levels load in about 12 seconds!) I love my raptors! 8)