Some questions according to Dual Opteron

[CordialSpam]

Is Dual Opteron overclockable? If what is the average on Dual Opt 246? I'm planning on getting Dual Opteron setup off that AMD Tech Tour deal for $500 with the mobo:

Server Bundle - Price = $500
— 2 - AMD Opteron™ 246 CPUs
— Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro (S2882-D) motherboard
— Microsoft Server 2003 x64 Edition


I think $500 is a pretty good deal for this setup..the mobo itself goes around $400+ ...and I would like to know how these babies would perform. Can someone show me some benchmarks on the Opterons or some links? I mainly don't play that much game but I do heavy multi-tasking including video editing, sound editing, convert..etc...so I think for $500 this is the way to go. The main thing is that I all want is to see the general application performance between the regular single A64 vs. the Dual Opterons. Thanks.

I am also planning on getting the Geforce PCX 6600gt, 512x2 of ECC registered ram.

[dicecca112]

its overclockable, but barely. Don't expect to get much, ocing in duallies is left to the XPs and Xeons

[CordialSpam]

Am I going to notice any performance gain from my current NC @ 2.5 to Dual Opt?

[dicecca112]

yes you will, duallies are primarily for multitasking you are gonna notice that you can do so many things with this at once. For instance encode a movie, and play a game with no lag.

[zachj]

You won't be able to overclock very well (if at all) on the board, but sell it and get an Asus K8N-DL. DaveB and friends have 244 CG Opterons running at 2.4GHz each. Overclocking can't be done it BIOS yet, but once you've bumped it up with Clockgen, you can close the program :)

I just learned about this the day before yesterday and thought I'd share the good news.

Z

[DaveB]

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