Advice on s939 cpu please

[chuckskull]

You need some pretty good hardware to a get a 144/146 to high clocks. plus theres no reason to buy one now as they aren't much cheaper than a 4000+

146 is about £60 and 4000+ about £70. £10 gives you a higher multi and base speed saves you a lot of clocking.

[harry1]

will a 146 surpass a 4000+? i think it would

[chuckskull]

The san diego cores clock well and to surpass it with a 146 his motherboard will need to hit 270/280 FSB, which not many boards can do.

Getting a 4000+ to similar speed will only need 225/235 FSB, much more realistic for most motherboards. Plus a lot cooler.

[danroyle]

but its not going to be as overclockable as any of the said above, i would if you cant or wont overclock get the 4000+ yes. or th fx, which i wanted u rat dan lol

lmao man got it just in time if it makes you feel any better only tweaked it up to 3.038 ghz stable first day but clocked it back to stock for a week or so let the thermal paste burn in then gonna see what it can do

although compared to my 3500 it flys

[KDH]

I ran my 1.8ghz at 9*250 for a long time, but it did suffer from stability issues(not often, but enough for me to not bother overclocking).

Add to that I'm using 4 sticks of 512mb now, so I cant really stretch it overclocking.

I have to admit, that 4000+ from microdirect looks tempting, anyone know if they do delivery to ireland?

edit:Scan have a s939 opteron 150 up for £88, any good?

[harry1]

I ran my 1.8ghz at 9*250 for a long time, but it did suffer from stability issues(not often, but enough for me to not bother overclocking).

Add to that I'm using 4 sticks of 512mb now, so I cant really stretch it overclocking.

I have to admit, that 4000+ from microdirect looks tempting, anyone know if they do delivery to ireland?

edit:Scan have a s939 opteron 150 up for £88, any good?

buy the opty for 40 quid off the sale forum, u cant go wrong