Opterons 165 & 170 < - Gibbo

Agent WD40 · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:06

GIBBO!!! TELL US, your Killing MEEeee!!

When are we going to find out?!?!

I want a dual core!

snow patrol · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:49

gibbo doesn't usually bother posting unless it's about something ocuk HAVE or are GETTING - at which time he's pimping it like there's no tomorrow.

Given that he's conspicuous by his absense in this thread (apart from the 2nd post where he's asking what the chips are - lol

), it's beginning to look like ocuk aren't getting these at the moment.

lego · 17 Jan 2006 at 13:40

Mine should be arriving in stock tomorrow, been waiting for 3 weeks. Was hoping gibbo may have been able to sort something before now, but it is a busy time (with Ati/Nvidia)

Just hoping i can get mine this week!!

Goksly · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:31

slightly OT - but what do you have to do (software wise) to have a dual core processor running properly?
Obviously on most machines you will need a bios flash, but what about other software and changes needed - assuming everything has been installed on a single core pc.

Thanks.

Pulseammo · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:05

Hhhmm, hopefully Gibbo will manage it *holds his breath*. I think an opteron 165 would prolly tempt me to upgrade now

easyrider · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:16

They are not getting sold to the public though just for system builders and for servers etc..

so I would be amazed if they get any in tbh.lets hope

GAMEfreak · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:19

well why wouldnt they? i mean OCuk build systems after all lol.

Agent WD40 · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:24

Damn Gibbo, you take too long.

I couldn't wait, so I got a 3700SD instead. Just wanted another CPU to play with!!

Pulseammo · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:57

easyrider said:
They are not getting sold to the public though just for system builders and for servers etc..

so I would be amazed if they get any in tbh.lets hope

True indeed however dont quite a few places have them in america?

hedgey · 17 Jan 2006 at 20:52

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=428946

Devious · 17 Jan 2006 at 21:34

Ive give up on anywhere in the uk getting them anytime soon. The one place which said they where getting delivery today has instead took the item totally off the website rather than just showing out of stock :confused:

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Luckily Ive just got a friend in the U.S to order me a opty 170, hopefully i wont get stung for tax like i did with paypal fees paying him

Pulseammo · 18 Jan 2006 at 00:01

Devious said:
Ive give up on anywhere in the uk getting them anytime soon. The one place which said they where getting delivery today has instead took the item totally off the website rather than just showing out of stock .
Luckily Ive just got a friend in the U.S to order me a opty 170, hopefully i wont get stung for tax like i did with paypal fees paying him

I think theres VAT but according to the customs webby ordering a full desktop PC should incur no import tax only VAT, prolly have some stupid rules for separate components though because of sod's law.

aphex · 18 Jan 2006 at 00:13

Theres tax for using Paypal? How much was it?

Devious · 18 Jan 2006 at 07:18

Pulseammo said:
I think theres VAT but according to the customs webby ordering a full desktop PC should incur no import tax only VAT, prolly have some stupid rules for separate components though because of sod's law.

We'll hes going to send it as a 'used processor' gift and value it much lower (hope it dont go missing!) so theres a chance I may get away with it.

aphex said:
Theres tax for using Paypal? How much was it?

It wasnt tax, lets just say paypals rate of exchange is worse than it should be, and then my friend had to pay fees for accepting the money on the other end which i then had to pay.

Bito · 18 Jan 2006 at 11:58

There's a place selling the Opteron 170, in stock for.....£337 + vat

daviec · 18 Jan 2006 at 13:03

It's pretested to 2.7GHz though. That's why they've bumped the price up.

FrankJH · 18 Jan 2006 at 14:00

ps3udo - all I was saying is that calling anything a bug when the person is blatently using the equipment out of its designed spec is not right, in my opinion ( ie by using vapo / mach)

No different from saying a normal crt tv is useless for Hdtv purposes - of course it is because it wasnt designed to be used as such

Just because in theory processors should work (let alone work better) in cold temps doesnt mean they have a bug when they dont!!! Seemingly critisizing a design for not running out of spec is ridiculous - I am meaning the "coldbug" term in general, nothing you said personally - this is "tech-head-edness" gone haywire

hedgey · 18 Jan 2006 at 14:48

arrived at last. evaded C&E

now the fun starts

saffyre · 18 Jan 2006 at 15:21

I want one of these babies. Get them in stock OCUK!!

hedgey · 18 Jan 2006 at 19:23

installing XP on it atm, temps 38c in bios (1.35) seem pretty hot, putting the xp90 on was a nightmare which i may have to revisit.