Anandtech has an overclocked Opteron test.. <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1856" target="_new">Link</A> The title says "Athlon64 Preview" but it's an Opteron overclocked to 2.0 GHz. Interesting and the gaming performance is stellar....

they had to change the output of the clock generator which takes a lot of work. site is in jap so bring a translator, they did manage to overclock the opteron 240 to 1.6ghz but to do so they had to change the output of the clock generator which takes a...

Opteron 165 Overclocking rig..Need advice please. I'm putting together a system and need some help finishing up my component choices. I'm putting together this system to overclock. I'm not a huge gamer , but I'd like to be able to do so. I do rip DVDs, make...

be the same, they will all have different tolarances. This makes overclocking a x2 or dual opteron harder because you have to overclock 2 cores and one may not go as high as the other. Yes some x2s will overclock as high as any opteron but again all cpus...

I have repeatedly seen people list their highest stable X2 overclocks and other people list their highest stable Opteron overclocks. The equivilent Mhz Opterons always are higher than the X2s. I've seen people say the X2 can't be as overclocked as the Opteron....

than X2. I myself have just order an Opteron 165, two 1GB OCZ Plat Ram, XFX 7800GT, and going to order shortly a DFI UT NF4 DR SLI Expert as I've been told by some experts that is the best mobo for overclocking an Opteron. People have easily got it from stock...

TYAN, Corsair REG ECC and a Zalman copper cooler ( s ). Anyone have any experience in overclocking opterons?? It would be 2 252 processors. I have built several Opteron 2xx machines but to be honest I have never OC'ed them. Which distro of Linux do you...

that big of a difference but it would help. So its up to your budget really Well almost U$150,00 is quite a difference aint it? The point is, if i were on to overclock i would get me an opteron 165. But i just chicken out. No more OCs for me. But if i spend...

of features that make overclocking easy. If you are willing to spend some time reading, you easely learn the basic concepts that will allow to understand how overclocking is done. So are you saying that moderately overclocking an Opteron 165 (using a fairly...

I am NOT wanting to wait for AM2. For that money, the AMD Opteron 165 Denmark core comes to mind. Seems like the best bang for the buck in that price range. Its 325 I believe nowadays. OK. I have a bit more knowledge now. How does this Opteron compare to...