Opteron or Venice core?

[Killrose]

Thinking of up-grading my trusty ol' nForce2 based to a new socket 939 either ASRock 939 Dual-sata (because I have a 6800U AGP) or Maybe even one of the new ASus ATi crossfire capable jobs and get a PCI-e vid card.

Anyway's with one of those should I get an Opteron or Venice core job? I would probably go with a 1.8gig vers of either and hope to OC to at least 2.4gig. I have looked briefly and have not found a site that compares the two in a gamming benchmark scenario.

 

[NewBlackDak]

All I can say is I bought a retail 148(everything else was sold out). I'm sitting at 2805@1.4vcore in an AsRock 939Dual-SATAII. The motherboard is in no way OCer friendly, and I had no problem pushing this chip to it's max. The memory is a different story, but there is a fix ahead for that.

 

[themusgrat]

Opterons are great and clock better than Venice's. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1732211&enterthread=y I would sell the 6800 Ultra and get a 6800GS or 7800GT. Read why here. http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2639 Good luck.

 

[Unkno]

Opterons have a higher rate of better overclocking, but it all depends on luck. If your lucky, even a venice can overclock pretty high.

 

[mrkun]

Definitely go with an Opteron. The 165 is the same price as the X2 3800, has twice the L2 cache, and will most likely overclock better.