3500+ or 144?

[MonkFish]

Any ideas whether it would be worth getting an opteron 144 or an athlon 64 3500?

[NightshadowUK]

The Operton 144 if you can get hold of one with the right steppings and you plan on overclocking. That means a good motherboard, decent cooling and preferably overclocking RAM.

If you're leaving your CPU at stock, go for the 3500+.

[MonkFish]

was not too sure about the rest of the stuff was going to upgrade in stages using the asrock board.
i was wondering how the 3500 overclocks compared to the 144?

[NightshadowUK]

Depends what the steppings are for the 144 you get, if you wanna go safe, get the 3500+.