Opteron 165 Retail available for decent price.

The Sauce

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I am building a system and could not find the Opty 165 in stock anywhere for a reasonable price. Finally after searching at least a dozen online retailers I found an old friend - excaliberpc.com.

AMD Opteron Model 165 Dual Core 1.8GHz, Rev E6, 2x1MB L2 Cache, Retail - $325.

Not bad for retail and it's in stock. Cheers.
 

Zap

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Are they actually taking orders now? I remember they took down their site for a while and said they'd be back, then they were back, but there was a message on their site saying they weren't actually taking orders.
 

Zebo

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At this price 3800+ may be better deal.. I'll take speed over cache anyday.
 

Mucker

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Cooling is also an issue. The dual Opty's are fine chips but when the clock goes up so does the heat. If you already own premium cooling, you will get the most out of these chips. If you don't, expect to spend additional cash if you want max performance. Becauase of this, the relatively cooler running 3800 may be a better bargain for some people....these dual Optys are ushering in a new era (multiple cores and large caches), and era where air cooling goes the way of the Dodo bird....

m :)
 

Hacp

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Funny how they marked it like it was a discount, when they are actually price gouging the MSRP.
 

The Sauce

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$25 higher for the retail over the OEM price is hardly gouging. That retail price is actually cheaper than anywhere else I have seen - including newegg and monarch (where it's out of stock). And BTW, the Opterons run cooler, clock-for-clock, than the X2's - for whoever laid out that misinformation about the heat production. Most people are easily hitting 2.4 - 2.6 GHz on plain air (base speed is 1.8 GHZ). That may be slightly less than the X2's o/c to but it's because of the extra L2 and that easily makes up for the clock difference with increased performance.