Opteron 144/146 vs. Venice 3000+/3200+

[x3ro]

Gonna get a new chip..... Currently have a venice 3000+, but i believe the memory controller is bad, as I've swapped ram and mobo both and still get corrupt ram issues....

Anyhoo, since I'm still looking, would the opteron 144 or 146 (s939) be faster than the venice 3000+/3200+???

 

[The Green Bean]

get the AMD

 

[Rustler]

Get a Opteron 146 or 148 you will hit 2-8-3GHz easily!!

 

[x3ro]

Originally posted by: hatim
opteron > Athlon64

Care to elaborate as to why?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Rustler
Get a Opteron 146 or 148 you will hit 2-8-3GHz easily!!

This is not necessarily true, but from everything I've seen (including first hand experience ordering a late model Venice E3 3200+) Venice's no longer overclock well; at least compared to the Opterons.

Clock for the clock, they are the same thing. But Opterons should OC much better.

 

[Rustler]

Opterons are more stringently tested, have a better memeory controller, made from the premium silicon.

 

[Muhadib]

So whats a good price on these suckers?

 

[icarus4586]

Also, I believe Opterons have 1MB of L2 cache as opposed to 512KB on Athlon 64s since ClawHammer.