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Athlon Opteron vs Athlon

post #1 of 13
1/16/06 at 8:23pm
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Can anyone explain me the difference?
(Use as plain language as possible!!)
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post #2 of 13
1/16/06 at 8:34pm
Opterons are for professional systems (servers, high powered content creation machines, supercomputers) that can be used in multiprocessor arrays, and are much more expensive than Athlons. Athlons are consumer level chips for home pc's (includes sempron, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX and Athlon X2 dual-core series'). If you are looking for a home pc, stick with the Athlon line...

Another note, the Opteron and Athlon chips will not work in the same motherboard, as the opteron has an extra pin for error checking ram.
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post #3 of 13
1/16/06 at 9:17pm
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i c
so thats y that blue MJ-12 is a workstation not a game station
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post #4 of 13
1/16/06 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by Flapjacks
Opterons are for professional systems (servers, high powered content creation machines, supercomputers) that can be used in multiprocessor arrays, and are much more expensive than Athlons. Athlons are consumer level chips for home pc's (includes sempron, Athlon64, Athlon64 FX and Athlon X2 dual-core series'). If you are looking for a home pc, stick with the Athlon line...

Another note, the Opteron and Athlon chips will not work in the same motherboard, as the opteron has an extra pin for error checking ram.

That is not entirely true Flapjacks. They make the Opteron in the 940 and the 939 pin. The Opteron 1xx series is the 939, and the 2xx are the 940's. Some say that the Opteron uses better silicon and goes through better QC than the Athlons. I have an Opteron 175 dual core in my main rig with the DFI SLI-DR 939 motherboard. If you look at some of the overclocking forums it would appear that the Opterons overclock slightly better than their X2, and Athlon 64 counterparts. The bad thing is that they are getting harder to find in the 939 pin and that for awhile drove the prices up a bit. Hope that helps you out a little blizard8.
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post #5 of 13
1/16/06 at 9:37pm
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thnx
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post #6 of 13
1/16/06 at 9:39pm
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Originally Posted by blizard8
thnx
No problem. The Opterons are very good chips, just make sure you get the right pin count if your shopping for one.
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post #7 of 13
1/17/06 at 11:23am
If you are looking to OC then go with an opteron, because that line is for servers they come underclocked, for lack of a better term. They do this to increase life in servers. The Oc's for an opteron are around 200-300 Mhz higher than athlon of the same speed rating, this is an average some will be better than others and some will be worse. When overclocking it is all about luck, getting lucky on your chip makes all the difference.
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post #8 of 13
1/17/06 at 11:43am
Check out this article:

http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/27340

Hope it's helpful.
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post #9 of 13
1/17/06 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by moidock
Check out this article:

http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/27340

Hope it's helpful.


There is some very good info in this article...nice find..TY
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post #10 of 13
1/17/06 at 3:29pm
One other thing is that the Opterons have the full 1mb cache, were as some of the Athlons have either 512mb or 1mb. Forgot to mention that, not that it makes all that much difference in the real world.
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post #11 of 13
1/17/06 at 10:04pm
so... opteron is better, but its not really needed for gaming applications, or its actually a detrament to gaming and its more expensive... and being underclocked (and therefore running cooler...) sounds like an advantage in a laptop...

(when i was doing research on this it seemed to me that the opteron was better for multitasking and running a number of programs...)

~LtKoch
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post #12 of 13
1/18/06 at 12:17am
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thnx all
im glad so many of u are willing to help

unfortunatel, i lack alota basic (to u) knowledge about computers and cannot understand all ure saying.

dont worry about it tho

thnx again, u answered my basic question
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post #13 of 13
1/21/06 at 4:24pm
little more i found

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The Opteron x75 CPUs that AMD sent us run at 2.2GHz and have a 1MB L2 cache per core, which makes the specs basically identical to the Athlon 64 X2 4400+. Although the use of ECC memory and a workstation motherboard would inevitably mean that performance will be slower than what will be when the real Athlon 64 X2s launch, its close enough to get a good idea of the competitiveness of the Athlon 64 X2.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=2397&p=13


that makes it sound like you are trading speed for longevity to me
~LtKoch
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