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    opteron 140 for gaming?

    I was looking at prices and noticed that opteron 140s are only $175. Im wondering if they are any good at gaming since they are architecturally the same as the athlon 64 fx i thought that maybe they would be decent at gaming.

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    wow... might have got really affordable for 20k+

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    As is see it the opteron 140 is just a 1.4ghz athlon fx. It could probably even be overclocked to around the speed of the fx 51.
    If im wrong someone please say so.

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    well theres the chance you get an old stepping opteron that wont oc aboth 1.8ghz... and you would need a huge fsb to get to fx-51 speeds wich would mean a 66mhz pci ide card with a damn good nf3 board, IF the cpu ocs that high...

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    I know a guy thats sellling Opteron 140 systems overclocked to 1900Mhz+... heres a Link

    Thats the highest he says it can run..
    Running now, http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=693435

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    So are opterons faster than athlon 64s clock for clock?

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    is the multi unlocked also on these?

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    I believe that multi's are locked on the Opteron's.... it's only the FX's that are unlocked..

    That's y MM is using a 146 Opteron as it has the multi of 10....
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    it seems.... the guy thats selling the 140s oced to 1.9ghz says the fsb is running at ~220 fsb iirc , that would mean a multi of 8.5 or 9 and not the default 7x multi.

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    why not go with with the cheap A64 3000+
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    512kb L2 cache :/ ~1500 less in 2k1!

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    A test over at AMDZone only showed a difference of 200 points in 3DMark2001SE when comparing the A64 3200+ and the A64 3000+ 512kb version
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    AMDZone isnt on top of the orb, is it?

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