When I Upgrade My Opteron 165...

[MBentz]

Exactly how many generations of CPUs have I missed? I'll be upgrading my Opty 165 to a 2500k or a BD pending reviews come Augustish.

 

[Blitz KriegeR]

Many. Shit I can hardly remember, a 165 was akin to a Pentium D wasn't it? Way back when 939 was king an intel was rolling netburst crap?

That would mean around five generations.

 

[MBentz]

Many. Shit I can hardly remember, a 165 was akin to a Pentium D wasn't it? Way back when 939 was king an intel was rolling netburst crap?

That would mean around five generations.

I believe it was running with the Pentium D. It's been so long I can hardly remember! Five generations... wow!

 

[Blitz KriegeR]

I know less AMD history than Intel since I pretty much jumped ship after the TLP bug in the first X2 and X4 chips. I can say for sure be glad you skipped AM2 / AM2+. AM3 is a much better platform but the chips are lacking vs intel.

Intel wise, Netburst finally died after Pentium D and heralded in the Core micro architecture that has made intel the performance leader ever since. It started with the dual core E series, then the quad Q series both on a 1066 bus. Great chips. Tick. Then came the shrink to 45nm and the E/Q shrinks that boosted clocks as well as the bus to 1333. Tock. Next intel brought in Core 2 with the i3/i5/i7 which brought further clock for clock performance increases, the new QPI interface (replaces "FSB"), on-die memory controllers, as well as Turbo and the return of hyper threading. Tick. Then came a shrink to 32nm and the i3/5/7 got lower power consumption, higher clocks, and some new features. Tock. Finally we arrive today with the 32nm Sandy Bridge, also known as Core 2 v2 that has once again shaken things up. Cheap, low power, turbo, super performance and overclockability. Plus, for the first time ever, 2Ghz @ .8v while idle and 5Ghz @ 1.50v combine in the same setup thanks to new and improved on-chip power plaining and voltage offsets. Tick.

 

[DirkGently1]

Socket 939 was awesome I had an FX55, which i sold to pay for a higher clocking Opteron, DFI Mobo and my current Coolermaster stacker 810!

Good times!

 

[Blitz KriegeR]

Ah 939, the king of its day.. when I could make bragging claims about the enthusiast oriented AMD who had the crown vs the lumbering giant f*cking the masses with shitty dell/gateway/hp/compaq crap fitted with slow, hot, power hungry Northwood/Prescott chips...

Personally I liked the FX-53 / rebaged 4000+.

 

[Makaveli]

My Opteron 170 is now my HTPC .

Has 4Gb's of ram and a 4890 for a videocard + XP90 HSF and yes its overkill but I wanted to recycle the rig alot of memories with that opteron.

Put it in a Silverstone LC20B-M and control it with my Harmony One loving the setup so far.

Haha it also is my last rig to use OCZ memory has DDR500 modules, before OCZ turned into the mess of a company it is now.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

A lot. My Opteron 170 => i7 930 last May. You'll love it.

 

[nyker96]

good old opty 165, I remember that, very OCable in its days.

 

[dac7nco]

Urp!

 

[jiffylube1024]

Exactly how many generations of CPUs have I missed? I'll be upgrading my Opty 165 to a 2500k or a BD pending reviews come Augustish.

You missed about four generations of CPUs (arguably five), and some of the generations were quite robust, like the first Core 2's that comprised both Core 2 Duo's and the first commercial quadcores the Core 2 Quads.

The Opteron 165 (1.8 GHz, 90nm, dual core) thoroughly stomped the Pentium D of its day, but these are the general families of chips you missed:

65nm Intel Core 2 Duo & Core 2 Quad chips (socket 775)
45nm Intel Core 2 Duo & Core 2 Quad chips (socket 775)
45nm Intel Core i series chips (Socket 1336 and 1156)

and now Sandy Bridge:
32nm Intel Core i series chips (Socket 1155)

So, enjoy your trip from the mid 2000's to 2011 in terms of processing power. Get an SSD for your boot drive to maximize the efect.

 

[SonicIce]

depends how you define generation. theres only been one new microarchitecture (the phenoms) since then. until bulldozer comes out

 

[Makaveli]

depends how you define generation. theres only been one new microarchitecture (the phenoms) since then. until bulldozer comes out

One new architecture for AMD.

The title of the thread indicates he is going from AMD to Intel.

Big blue has more than 1 in that time frame.

 

[toyota]

The last of my single-core machines:wub:. It lives on as my cousin's NAS.

Daimon

the Opty 165? that is a dual core cpu.

 

[sm625]

Nerds. I have an athlon X2 socket 939 system sitting in the closet. It was found in the trash. It had a whiny chipset fan, but that was an easy fix. I now believe they threw it away because it simply consumed too much power. I wont even use it for NAS because it is just too power hungry.

 

[Makaveli]

I like how your post starts with an insult when your posting in a computer forum!

Its like going to a car show and calling everyone there cards nerds lol.

Anyways I agree the 939 system would be alittle power hungry for a NAS, you would better off buying a prebuilt system or building your own mini ITX system.