What Proccessor to use Opetron or Athlon MP

bru · 02-22-2004, 12:34 PM

AMD Opetron or Athlon MP, Which do ya'll thinks is better?

jtshaw · 02-22-2004, 12:56 PM

If you have the money it is Opteron all the way... My knew box has two of them

bru · 02-22-2004, 01:11 PM

I check out newegg.com and pricing the Athlon MP 2800+ vs. the Opetron 1.4GHz 240s the diffrence was $37. Did you have any problems getting Linux to work on the Opetrons?

jtshaw · 02-22-2004, 02:21 PM

Ya, your right, guess the price difference isn't too bad. Probably just seamed expensive because I bought it with a $500 mother board, a 3ware SATA Raid adapter and two of those SATA Raptor 74 GB disks.

I didn't have any trouble with getting linux to work, I used a Gentoo AMD64 basic livecd to install.

Just so you know, you don't have to get a $500 mainboard to use opteron's. But I wanted to use the 3ware card on a 66Mhz. 64bit PCI slot which is why I got one.

bru · 02-22-2004, 03:43 PM

Did you have any trouble with the SATA? I'm thinking about using SATA on my new box I'm looking at buildign.

jtshaw · 02-22-2004, 03:58 PM

Not with the 3ware card, but I dunno about the on-board SATA controller because I am not using it for anything.

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