Athlon or Opteron?

Question

I am going to be building a gaming computer (dual NVIDIA 7950gt, 2GB RAM,
48x optical drive, 320GB hard drive, 680watt PSU, A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo) and i was wondering which of the following would be a better gaming processor. An AMD Athlon64 4000+ San Diego 2.4GHz, or an AMD Opteron 152 Venus 2.6 GHz. Both will be socket 939 and Single-Core.

Thanks for the imput. I changed to a Pentium D 950 Presler 3.4 GHz LG 775, a ASUS P5NSLI mobo, and a ASUS EN8800GTS video card. If anyone wants to say something about the changes, it would be much appriciated

Answer 1

The Opteron processor is a server grade processor thats meant to be run in 2x and 4x configuration. Its also horribly overpriced for the performance. If you've already got things ordered, buy yourself the Athlon64 or AthlonX2.

On the other hand, why in God's name are you building a gaming rig using the Athlon platform right now, when the Core2Duo completely kicks its *** in every benchmark out there? The lowest priced Core2Duo E6300 (selling for under $200) beats the fastest AMD processors in almost all benchmarks and will cost 1/4 of a high end Opteron part.

I'd say swap the motherboard, ram, and processor from your parts list, if you can.

I'd also recomend that if you havnt ordered your dual 7950GT you look at the 8800 that was just released. Its faster than the dual 7950's in most situations, will put less strain on your powersupply, and supports DX10. Not to mention it fits in a single slot and costs less.

Did you come up with this parts list 6 months ago? lol

Edit: The new parts list looks GREAT! You'll definately have an incredibly fast PC there. :)

Answer 2

Please consider the Athlon64 X2.

Also, unless you have already purchased your mainboard it would be wise to get one with an AM2 socket rather than 939.

AM2 accepts all 939 processors & will also accept the upcoming AMD Quad Core processors.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 3

Go with the AMD 64 4000 it has FX specs but a much cheaper price. It rocks........

Answer 4

idk..about the other two,if your making a gaming rig,i would either go for a athlon 64,or x2 for athlon,or the new core 2 duo from intel,lol idk if you wanna waste your money on those other two you mentioned,expecially if your gonna spend a good amount of money for your rig.