Conor wrote:

In article . com,
says...

Like it says, when will we stop seeing Opteron 165s one the price
lists? And, when it disappears off the charts, how much will an
Opteron 170 or higher cost at that time? Will prices continue to trend
steadily upward as supply dwindles, or would the prudent buyer be
smarter waiting for prices to go down instead of acquiring one now at
today's price? Opteron 170 $405 -- worth two 3500+s? Is it likely
that the Opteron 180 will drop in price to $128 shipped when AM2 is
unveiled (and, presumably, 3rdgen sckt 939 boards are still available
for very cheap)?



Why the hell do you want one? They're a server CPU. They're not going
to make your games run faster than a X2.


You might be thinking of the original series of Opteron socket 940
chips. These were designed for servers. The current batch of Denmark
and Venus Socket 939 Opterons are high-performance workstation or client
CPUs. They are of similar design to the San Diego Athlon 64s and Athlon
X2 Toledos but seem to run at slightly lower voltages and easily overclock.

The Opteron 165 is of particular interest because it is a 2 x 1mb cache
dual core CPU that can be very easily overclocked to 2.7ghz. The
165's price is lower than the entry Athlon X2 CPU with the same cache
though the 165 has a lower clock speed. But if it can be easily oc'ed
to a fast speed, its basic clock speed doesn't matter much.