Hi - I'm hoping someone who uses this forum might be able to offer me some advice.
After an order arrived that I thought had been cancelled I've ended up with two brand new retail dual core Opterons. They are both still sitting in their boxes as one of them is going to be returned asap. The steppings are as follows -
AMD Opteron 165 - CCB1E 0609 FPBW
AMD Opteron 170 - CCBWE 0551 UPMW
Both were competitively priced so I've been endlessly researching steppings to help me decide which one to keep. I'm currently thinking about keeping the 165 as the CCB1E are reputedly good overclockers generally, with the CCB1E 0609 FPAW (very similiar?) a bit of a scorcher, while the CCBWE steppings seem average at best.
Any advice or opinions you can offer about either cpu will be much appreciated as once the box is opened there's no going back!
twitchy