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Post by Nostra1 on Nov 16, 2006 17:56:28 GMT 1
From the grapevine it seems NewEgg got a nice batch of AMD Opteron 165 Denmark with the infamous CCBBE stepping. The 165 is a dual core Opteron and the CCBBE batch is said to have some of the best overclocking capability of any AMD chips that have come out of production. People have taken this beast to 3.0Ghz on air cooling ( to give a comparison the $900 FX-62 chip is the same chip (same core, same cache) but only runs at 2.6Ghz stock (not overclocked) speed. So it is faster than a stock FX-62.) Not bad for a $150 chip. Don't know how long they will have it in stock though. Man, I am tempted....
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Post by osiris on Nov 17, 2006 20:59:28 GMT 1
Man, i'm tempted as well! Even if to buy a new CPU means to buy a new computer... Yes, the price is very low for a beast like that. But why "the infamous CCBBE stepping"?
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Post by Nostra1 on Nov 18, 2006 0:17:41 GMT 1
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Post by Nostra1 on Nov 21, 2006 2:40:48 GMT 1
Gave into temptation and ordered the Opty last Thursday evening. It already was waiting for me when I got home today. When I examined the package it was a CCBBE 0616XPMW!
;D ;D ;D
I will be using this chip in my wife's build that will later be put into the computer build thread. Will tell you later if I was able to take it to 2.7Ghz.
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Post by osiris on Nov 21, 2006 14:57:25 GMT 1
Ok, will look forward for your post! I bet you will be able to overclock the monster... Hopefully, without to cause a short circuit (it would be a shame!)! ;D
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Post by Nostra1 on Jan 21, 2007 22:52:52 GMT 1
Well finally got the thing to 2.7Ghz. The VCore is only at 1.3V (below the 1.4 V stock Athlon 64 voltage). Its also running really cool (32C idle and around 50C even with both core at full load using Orthos Blend).
SiSoft Sandra Benchmarked the system at being between FX-60 and FX-62 performance.
will see if I can continue up but even at 2.7Ghz, I am happy.
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