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So I sit here at work with an Opteron 180 in my shirt pocket (don?t worry, it?s in its special bubble.)
Based on some quick searching, its stepping, LCB9E 0651RPMW is a decent one and I should reach 3 ghz on air. Is this crazy of me to expect?
I got it at really low price (bout $90) and it?s brand new retail box. Can?t believe how cheap it was considering its original price way back. Even when I settled on my current Opteron 148 for $200 ? which seemed to be a steal at the time ? I never imagined picking up a 180 so cheap. Thus, I feel I can milk this setup for another year or two before being forced to move to a new platform. I would be interested in building a cool and quiet c2d box but this would force me to break down and get DDR2 memory and a new board. A $90 shot-in-the-arm to a dual core Opteron was too tempting to pass up. I mean, my single core 148 rocks my games pretty good still and for general use it?s been stellar. There are times when I?ve slammed it with an encode going, for example, but nothing so unbearable.
I?m curious if anyone has played with this stepping or the 180 in general. I?ve got a very, very stable setup with the 148 operating at 2750ghz, and would ideally like to drop in the 180 and run at 3ghz, which is what I?d be looking at with the 180?s 12x stepping -- the 148 is 11x -- and my 1:1 with memory @ 250. HT is at 4 and I was really happy with the evenness of my settings. Is expecting the 180 to just drop in and hum with my current setting configuration a pipe dream? This is all being cooled with a Zalman CNPS9700 and heat generally isn?t much of an issue with these Opterons.
Any thoughts or similar recent experiences? I see Newegg is still clearing out some 939 Opterons and there are a few other retailers clearing out 170s, 175s, 180s and 185s. Seems like a decent way to eke more life out of this socket. It?s not as if my memory is really killing me. And I might be inclined to wait two years ? by then we?ll be on DDR3 and it?s always fun to skip a generation for bragging rights, eh?
And jeepers crow! An Opteron 180, even at stock, is nothing to sneeze at. I?m psyched.
Based on some quick searching, its stepping, LCB9E 0651RPMW is a decent one and I should reach 3 ghz on air. Is this crazy of me to expect?
I got it at really low price (bout $90) and it?s brand new retail box. Can?t believe how cheap it was considering its original price way back. Even when I settled on my current Opteron 148 for $200 ? which seemed to be a steal at the time ? I never imagined picking up a 180 so cheap. Thus, I feel I can milk this setup for another year or two before being forced to move to a new platform. I would be interested in building a cool and quiet c2d box but this would force me to break down and get DDR2 memory and a new board. A $90 shot-in-the-arm to a dual core Opteron was too tempting to pass up. I mean, my single core 148 rocks my games pretty good still and for general use it?s been stellar. There are times when I?ve slammed it with an encode going, for example, but nothing so unbearable.
I?m curious if anyone has played with this stepping or the 180 in general. I?ve got a very, very stable setup with the 148 operating at 2750ghz, and would ideally like to drop in the 180 and run at 3ghz, which is what I?d be looking at with the 180?s 12x stepping -- the 148 is 11x -- and my 1:1 with memory @ 250. HT is at 4 and I was really happy with the evenness of my settings. Is expecting the 180 to just drop in and hum with my current setting configuration a pipe dream? This is all being cooled with a Zalman CNPS9700 and heat generally isn?t much of an issue with these Opterons.
Any thoughts or similar recent experiences? I see Newegg is still clearing out some 939 Opterons and there are a few other retailers clearing out 170s, 175s, 180s and 185s. Seems like a decent way to eke more life out of this socket. It?s not as if my memory is really killing me. And I might be inclined to wait two years ? by then we?ll be on DDR3 and it?s always fun to skip a generation for bragging rights, eh?
And jeepers crow! An Opteron 180, even at stock, is nothing to sneeze at. I?m psyched.