AMD Opteron 240?

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BigBrains57

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Is this usually for servers or desktops? I can get a good deal on one and want to know what it'd be used for, its not EE, and I'm upgrading...
 
You can use the Opty in either- its just made for servers cuz its really stable and stuff. It would make a good CPU. Lucky! I know ive already responded to one of your threds- on the same thing, but ill let it pass lol.
 
thanks, i know what it runs at, but with oc'ing and the amount of ram you can use it'll be up there, and i may get a board with dual socket 940 and get 2 240's
 
BigBrains57 said:
thanks, i know what it runs at, but with oc'ing and the amount of ram you can use it'll be up there, and i may get a board with dual socket 940 and get 2 240's
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Mmmm...dual sockety goodness...
 
yes... but just an opinion...

a 240 would be great but only if you use it with 2 cpus... they are designed as you know to be used in a motherboard with 2 cpu sockets... and if you don't use that feature you could save a lot of cash on just something like a 150-170 series opteron...

is the 240 series a dual core cpu? i think it is but could you tell me for sure?

could you tell us how much your good deal is going to be? i just want to know how lucky you actually are...
 
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The 940 is like the server version of the 754, it's a dying and outdated socket. Get a 939 based opteron. You could get a dual core based Opteron and put it in there. That's like two 940s, as there is no dual socket 939. The 939 Opteron's also have full dual chanel memory support, along with faster Hypertransport speeds, and hand-picked cores. I've often reccomended people looking at 939 Athlon 64s to go for the 939 Opteron instead, and it's usually turned out positive. I'd steer clear of the expensive and dying socket 940.
 
Yea, basically, it's a sever chip, and will offer you sub par desktop performance. It's designed to be in Dual Processor arrangements (aka the 2xx). The price of a dual CPU mobo will be very expensive, and may not have cutting edge features at an affordable leve. (PCI-E, is often replaced by PCI-E x4/x8/x2/ (the obscure ones that never made it mainstream)) And you'll usually end up with integrated graphics. Should you find a board with that (unlikely with a dual socket 940), you'll pay a hefty premium, not to mention, those boards are picky in wanting specific RAM arrangements, with buffered and ECC RAM, which is another added cost. For the price of the mobo alone, you can get a dual core Opteron 939, that's faster, which right there replaces two of those 940 and beats them, and a nice 939 board with all the bells and wistles, and probably SLI should you so desire it.
 
BigBrains57 said:
Yeah i actually decided to go the laptop route so when i go to my girlfriends house or around town (free wifi in town!)
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Oh, that's cool, I wish my town had free wifi. Well, enjoy your new laptop. What are the specs?
 
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