x2 4400 or Operton 170???

[Skriptures17]

I noticed that the Operton 170 is 1000MHz and x2 4400 is 2000MHz? Does this make a difference in performance?

 

[Captante]

Opteron 170 is 2.0ghz & X2 4400+ is 2.2ghz ... both have a 1mb L2 cache per core.

A better comparision to the 4400+ is the Opteron 175 which is also 2.2ghz & has the same 1mb L2 cache per core... Zipzoomfly has a retail box model in stock for $513 vs $497 for the 4400+ (both prices include free Fedex 2-day) ... if you planning on overclocking I'd suggest getting the Opteron 170 though, because its almost certain to do 2.4ghz, if you want to run at default go for the 4400+.

 

[darXoul]

It says "1 GHz FSB" which means the bus, not the processor. Opteron 170 runs @ 2 GHz stock. X2 4400+ runs @ 2.2 GHz.

Edit: oops, Captante beat me to it. My boss came so I had to stop posting for a few minutes