Opteron 170 or X2 3800?

Grey410

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I am looking for a CPU for a gaming rig. I am deciding between the Opteron 170 or the X2 3800. I am leaning towards the Opteron due to the 1mb cache it has. Any thoughts or personal experience with this?:confused:
 

jesbax

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i have the x2 3800+. it works great for gaming. the only downside is that some of the games will not run very good with dual cpus. but the is an easy fix just by slecting its prosses to one cpu
 

thealmightyone

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Dual-core opterons are just Athlon X2's, but made of higher-quality silicon and have higher tolerances (and all have 2MB cache, opposed to just 3 of the X2 line having 2MB cache). Unless you are going to overclock, you are not really going to see much, if any, benefit. If you ARE going to overclock a lot, then you will see a much greater benefit.

I'm looking for some comparisons between the two at the moment.

EDIT: An out-of-the-box comparison chart-thingy. The chart shows that they basically perform equally; unsuprisingly, the 175 is the Opteron version of the X2 4200.
 
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Praetor

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I believe the X2 3800+ is cheaper.
Perhaps where you shop, but that might not be the case for everyone (also, since you're not buying either it wasnt a reply to you) :)
 

Charles_Lee

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i am pretty sure x2 3800 would be cheaper, because opteron 165 is like the same price as x2 3800...
(i once did quite a bit of research)...(not that i am right, but generally from normal computer stores, x2 3800 would be cheaper)
 

Grey410

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What I bought

I bought the following:
Opteron 165
2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5
250GB SATA II Seagate 7200.9
XFX 7900 GT
Abit AN8 SLI
20.1" Widescreen
Antec Truepower 2.0 550W SLI PSU
Case, Fans, Blah blah, keyboard/mouse :D
 

fade2green514

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lol i would get the opteron 165.
if you're building your own system, you may want to overclock it.. in which case the opteron's are very good.
2.4ghz is easily reached with that proc.. with stock cooling.
basically you get opteron stability for cheaper than the 170.
but yes, i definitely agree with praetor... if you had to choose the opty 170 or X2 3800+ get the cheaper of the two.
cache makes a slight difference, but the opteron's have a slightly relaxed memory controller.
basically, the opty will perform slightly better... maybe 1-5 fps in a game lol
but either will easily meet system requirements for any game out there so you'll be fine...
plus they're both dual core which cuts time in almost half for most converting operations.
my old 3400+ (2.2ghz 1mb L2) converted a divx to dvd in about 55-60 mins, my new proc does the same operation at 2.6ghz in around 25 mins...
and still only uses about 88% of my proc tops lol :) definitely worth getting dual core whether you use all of the cpu resources or not.
 
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