Prelude76 Senior Member
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definatley the FX55. the Opteron has to use error-correcting RAM (more $$, which is better as a central server, but is worse for performance and speed.
the FX series is for high-end gaming, the Opteron is for servers, the Athlon64 is for mid-range gaming, and Sempron are the budget systems.
Prelude76 Senior Member
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QUOTE (priceywazere @ Apr 13 2005, 11:10 AM) what about dual opterons, or is it still the 64 fx55? dual opteron will only be useful if you plan on doing video editing and playing games at the exact same time
but it wont speed up gameplay at all, as the game would have to be programmed in such a way as to take advantage of dual-CPU, and none are.
Cow187 Senior Member
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Single core CPUs will reign supreme in gaming for a good 2 years or so. The AMD FX-55 looks to be one of the fastest gaming CPUs for quite some time, there will be some faster single cores but not that much faster.
Nothing can beat a single FX-55 in games right now at stock speeds of course.
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04/13/2005 02:55 PM
, which is better as a central server, but is worse for performance and speed.