New Opteron System - opinions

[technophreak]

I want a new Opteron system for christmas and I did have £250 to spend on one. I bought a Sony HD1 for £90 however so this leaves me with £160 to spend. I've got memory, harddrives, optical drives and a case I can use from my current pc.

I've chosen the following CPU and motherboard because they are in my budget and the motherboard has onboard graphics for until I can afford a PCI-E card. I was wondering if the motherboard would be any good for overclocking because I'd like to do it when I can afford better memory and a graphics card.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=292146

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=289426

Also, how good is the GeForce 6100 GPU compared to an AGP Radeon 9200 256mb?

Thanks

[BUFF]

if you have an existing AGP card from your present system you may want to look at the ASrock DualSATA - that supports both AGP & PCI-E.

[technophreak]

Wow, thanks alot! That looks great for me. Cheaper than the Gigabyte one too . Do you know if its any good for clocking?

[BUFF]

Supposedly struggles to get over ~270HTT & there are also reports of some people having problems with memory timing.
Let's say it's a fair overclocker rather than great?

I've got 1 here to play around with when I get a chance to swap CPUs out of my AN8.

[technophreak]

What do you reckon I could get out of a CABYE 146 with it? I'm not too fussed about huge clocks but it would be nice to get something extra out of it.

[BUFF]

Well a 146 has a max multi of 10x so if you can get 270HTT that's 2.7GHz.

[Reaps]

BUFF is correct about the fsb maxing out at 270 and the mobo has issues with running memory at 1T but it's no biggy

[BUFF]

BUFF is correct about the fsb maxing out at 270 and the mobo has issues with running memory at 1T but it's no biggy

Saw a 400HTT screenshot on a Dual SATA over the weekend!

[jiffz]

Im buying the otepron 146 and a Gigabyte K8NMF-9-K8 939 with a 6800LE PCI-E card. Hope it works out!!!

[philyau]

Im buying the otepron 146 and a Gigabyte K8NMF-9-K8 939 with a 6800LE PCI-E card. Hope it works out!!!

get a DFI instead m8!!!!

phil

[RobertN]

i bought the same cpu and a asrock dual sata mobo i am using beta bios1 from ocw which allows higher fsb i am currently on 320 x 9 2880 mhz

i am stll trying to work out the best settings in my bios as this is my first a64 setup

here is a link to a forum about the asrock mobo where i got my bios

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/u...=0;DaysPrune=0

[kalniel]

Nice.

I hadn't seen the thing about 1T stability problems before I'm going for the board anyway but that's an annoyance IMO.

[technophreak]

I've got a bit of extra money now so I can buy some new memory. Would 2x1gb or 4x512mb of Geil PC3200 be better?

[RobertN]

I've got a bit of extra money now so I can buy some new memory. Would 2x1gb or 4x512mb of Geil PC3200 be better?

i would go for 2x 1gb then you have room for more the mobo maybe a bit fusier when overclocking with four sticks aswell