s939 Opteron 144 "Review"

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Hacp

Hacp

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Wow, I never knew motherboard makers allowed Ocs.

NVM, SOcket 939 lol. Does the memory controller allow 4x double sided?
 
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Hyperlite

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Originally posted by: Furen
I dont know if anyone else has posted (or linked to this) but here it is:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73384&page=1&pp=25

Petr at XtremeSystems reviewed an Opeton 144 (s939) and overclocked it to 2.8GHz. Not bad for a CPU that will supposedly be cheaper than the A64 3000+ (of course I'm guessing most of these are going to OEMs, rather than resellers).
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we will find a way...:D

this will be awesome. so its basically just a budget SD, but how can they make it cheaper than a 1.8ghz Venice?
 
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Sixtyfour

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Im amazed that AMD is selling Opterons for less than Athlon 64's.

Even Opteron 254 is much cheaper than FX-57..
 
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Furen

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Originally posted by: Hacp
Wow, I never knew motherboard makers allowed Ocs.

NVM, SOcket 939 lol. Does the memory controller allow 4x double sided?
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At 2T, like regular San Diegos (will AMD call these San Diegos or Venuses?).

Originally posted by: Sixtyfour
Im amazed that AMD is selling Opterons for less than Athlon 64's.

Even Opteron 254 is much cheaper than FX-57..
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They're milking us to their heart's content. Opterons have had steady price drops, while A64s got a price hike when they went to socket 939.
 
Hyperlite

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Ok so now i am confused, let me see if i have this right....San Diego is just a hacked up Venus, so the s939 144 is technically a Venus core? or is it San Diego? ahhhh!


So, with the Introduction of the SD core for FX's, it was actually a Venus core with some things enabled and disabled, and they are now releaseing lower end versions?
 
Hyperlite

Hyperlite

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"Petr
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Posts: 44 You better read the review. Opteron s939 can use ECC as well as non-ECC unbuffered memory.

Venus vs. San Diego - the problem is this mess in names. There is nothing like San Diego core. Cores are named by letters and numbers. A64 3700+ s939 uses SH8 core in E4 revision. The name "San Diego" comes to say it is a s939 chip with 1 MB cache. That name is therefore a codename for a processor, not for a core. A year back a "Newcastle" was used to say it was an s754 chip with 512 kB cache... but no matter if it used DH7-CG (512 kB L2 cache) core or SH7-CG one (1 MB L2 cache with half of cache disabled).

Opterons for s939 use SH8-E4, exactly the same core as A64s w/ 1MB L2 use. And BTW, Opterons for s940 now also use SH8-E4 core. Only difference between s939 and s940 parts are that the memory controller is configured differently. But the core is the same. "





there. to end all argument.

 
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Furen

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Heh, I was wondering what AMD will call them. I know they're all the same core revision.
 
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coomar

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so the 144 is finally starting to leak out, i saw somewhere its supposed to be available oem for 150
so basically more in line price wise with the 3200

but still a great value
 
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Vegitto

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OMG, curious what the Opteron 165, 170 and 175'll cost :D. And I hope they overclock like fuc[/i]king hell :D.
 
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coomar

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hold up we can swear on this forum, i thought it was like tbs, nothing beyond kindergarden level swears
 
Hacp

Hacp

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SO??? Can the Opterons handle 4x double sided? The memory controller is better than venice/sandiego right??? We should get confrimation.
 
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Vegitto

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Originally posted by: coomar
hold up we can swear on this forum, i thought it was like tbs, nothing beyond kindergarden level swears
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Officially: No. If you're smart, like me: Of course you can swear, any fuc[/i]king word you want. Just quote my text, and you'll see how the fuc[/i]k I did it. Fuc[/i]k, yeah! This shi[/i]t's not a problem, either. This one's fun, too: Coc[/i]kgobbler!

Well, after that little offtopic skit:

I totally afgree with Hacp, someone should check if Opterons can handle 4x double sided. I know the answer, but hel[/i]l, I'm too lazy.

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If you were as smart as you would like to believe you are, you would not prove how rude you can be on our forums.

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Originally posted by: coomar
hold up we can swear on this forum, i thought it was like tbs, nothing beyond kindergarden level swears
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It's not whether we can or can't, it's whether we're mature enough to not need to. ;)
 
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NatePo717

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so to get back on topic what would be the gaming performance of one of these? I don't know much about the opterons at all but if they perform on par or better I might look into getting one of these insted of the 3700+
 
Hyperlite

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Originally posted by: Hacp
SO??? Can the Opterons handle 4x double sided? The memory controller is better than venice/sandiego right??? We should get confrimation.
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actually i think its the same as SD, but isn't SD better then venice? can SD take 4X double sided? that should answer your question.
 
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Originally posted by: Hyperlite
Originally posted by: Hacp
SO??? Can the Opterons handle 4x double sided? The memory controller is better than venice/sandiego right??? We should get confrimation.
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actually i think its the same as SD, but isn't SD better then venice? can SD take 4X double sided? that should answer your question.
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I think the San Diego and Venice chips share the same memory controller. The only real difference is the extra 512KB of Cache. Well there is probably SD having better SI too.
 
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