Socket 939

[slavedriver]

Guys, is there an advantage of the Socket 939 over the Socket 754.

Thanks

[confus-ed]

Upgradeability.

There I'm finnished !

[TechZ]

Thats a good reason, also check here: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=247 it has a good chart that shows the pros/cons of each.

A big advantage is :
Socket 939 supports Dual Channel memory where as Socket 754 does not.

Another good article on it:
http://www.amdreview.com/reviews.php?rev=3000-3200-90nm

excerpt:

Socket 754 CPU:

• Single Channel Memory only
• 64bit DDR SDRAM at 100, 133, 166, and 200Mhz
• Three DIMM's supported
• 800Mhz Hyper Transport Bus Speed
• Runs hotter than socket 939 cpu's
• Consumes more power than socket 939's

Socket 939 CPU:

• Dual Channel Memory
• 128bit DDR SDRAM at 100, 133, 166, and 200Mhz
• Four DIMM's supported
• 1000Mhz Hyper Transport Bus Speed
• Runs cooler than socket 754 cpu's
• Consumes less power than socket 754's

[RejectionMan]

new socket forth comming alread... something like X2 should enable support for DDR2 amoungst other things...

socket 754 is old school, buying it now will get you a toped out system with no where to upgrade to... 939 will hang on fora while longer

[slavedriver]

new socket forth comming alread... something like X2 should enable support for DDR2 amoungst other things...

socket 754 is old school, buying it now will get you a toped out system with no where to upgrade to... 939 will hang on fora while longer

Thanks on the replies, 939 appears the way to go plus PCI E MB.

[confus-ed]

Thanks on the replies, 939 appears the way to go plus PCI E MB.

If you are an 'upgrader' then it is indeed the way , but the VFM choice is currently 754 .

My one word answer earlier was too short

Q...is there an advantage of the Socket 939 over the Socket 754?

A. Yes there's three:-

Upgradeability (socket 939 is likely to be around longer than 754 or that's what AMD are currently planning).

Temperature (939 chips consume less power & therefore need to disapate less heat).

& performance (939 has 'dual channel memory' & other features which make it faster, but most estimates would say the gain is about 3-5% .. but it depends what you are doing & with what , the benchmark gains get much more favourable for instance if you use 64 bit windoze & you aren't just measuring performance in Quake ! Database applications might show gains more like 15%).

& the reason why not is currently 'bang for buck', as for 'quite a bit less' you can get something that goes almost as fast.

... but yeah your conclusion is right if you are worried about tomorrows computing needs (& you can afford it !) .

[slavedriver]

If you are an 'upgrader' then it is indeed the way , but the VFM choice is currently 754 .

My one word answer earlier was too short

Q...is there an advantage of the Socket 939 over the Socket 754?

A. Yes there's three:-

Upgradeability (socket 939 is likely to be around longer than 754 or that's what AMD are currently planning).

Temperature (939 chips consume less power & therefore need to disapate less heat).

& performance (939 has 'dual channel memory' & other features which make it faster, but most estimates would say the gain is about 3-5% .. but it depends what you are doing & with what , the benchmark gains get much more favourable for instance if you use 64 bit windoze & you aren't just measuring performance in Quake ! Database applications might show gains more like 15%).

& the reason why not is currently 'bang for buck', as for 'quite a bit less' you can get something that goes almost as fast.

... but yeah your conclusion is right if you are worried about tomorrows computing needs (& you can afford it !) .

Saying that performance gain is aprox 3-5% then possibility I should stay with the socket 754 PCI E, and PCI E VC, then I won't have to put out $300.00 plus for a new CPU.

[FireAm94]

If you plan on running a dual core chip you will have no choice but to go 939. The dual channel isn't that big of a deal with A64's. The bigger deal with memory is to get low latency....like 2-2-2-5....that is WAY more important then anything else to do with memory. Oh yeah...and BE SURE to enable 1T in the bios.