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939 AMD64's available at new egg!!

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manno

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Here they are. I don't see any 939 motherboards though... at least not as of posting. Maybe they'll look good on a key chain for the time being? They changed the packaging to... now it won't look like I just bought a GI-JOE shrink wraped doll when I buy an AMD.


-manno

I'll get a post right on the first try one of these times.
 
If I was gonna spend in the neighborhood of $500 for a CPU, I think I'd pop for the extra $15 and get a warrantied CPU. 😀 What are the tangible performance benefits of the 939-pin form factor?
 
dual channel memory controler, longer lifetime, half the cache is the difference. On average the chips are faster than similarly clocked 754 chips.
 
Originally posted by: JBT
dual channel memory controler, longer lifetime, half the cache is the difference. On average the chips are faster than similarly clocked 754 chips.
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So, Dual-Channel, but half the cache? Which one makes the bigger difference in performance for 3D apps and games?
 
AMd is king now and they are pricing accordingly!!! So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
 
Originally posted by: tedinde
AMd is king now and they are pricing accordingly!!! So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
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Gotta say I'm loving my lowly754- AMD 64 3200+ !!!

According to the review a 6-11% performance gain at double the price... and I've got mine overclocked pretty dang close to that without breaking a sweat. And of course, mine is plugged into a 2nd gen motherboard too.

I will get a 939, but not today.
 
Originally posted by: tedinde
So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
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It's exactly like ordering a Dual Layer DVD Burner.. you get excited, then bam, something is missing for a few months.
 
dual channel memory controler, longer lifetime, half the cache is the difference. On average the chips are faster than similarly clocked 754 chips
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I would hold off before saying 939 will have a longer lifetime. I am not saying your wrong, since nobody really knows but AMD. But there are the rumors(well maybe there more then rumor, I think AMD said they require a socket change for DDR2)that AMD will offer up another socket when DDR2 starts making sense. SO far this is looking like socket 900, so hopefully, they can keep the socket 939, but make the new chips with 900 pins for whatever and use the other 39 for grounds or soemthing.



Edit: Nevermind, I just started reading anands socket 939 article and it says AMD doesn't want to confise people and have them put a chip with a single channel memory controller in a dual channel board, or DDR2, in a standard DDR board, so they will be making new sockets for each new memory controller. So socket 939 may not last as long as expected.
 
Originally posted by: B0RED0M
Originally posted by: tedinde
So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
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It's exactly like ordering a Dual Layer DVD Burner.. you get excited, then bam, something is missing for a few months.
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yeah and by the time you get your mb, that price have dropped! 😀
 
heh, dang. just got my 3400+ system assembled a couple days ago. Something faster two days later 🙂
 
Originally posted by: FunkierThanU
Originally posted by: tedinde
AMd is king now and they are pricing accordingly!!! So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
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Gotta say I'm loving my lowly754- AMD 64 3200+ !!!

According to the review a 6-11% performance gain at double the price... and I've got mine overclocked pretty dang close to that without breaking a sweat. And of course, mine is plugged into a 2nd gen motherboard too.

I will get a 939, but not today.
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What Mobo you using Funky?
 
Originally posted by: B0RED0M
Originally posted by: tedinde
So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
Click to expand...

It's exactly like ordering a Dual Layer DVD Burner.. you get excited, then bam, something is missing for a few months.
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LOL!
 
I wouldn't get a $1000 P4EE when EVERY SINGLE AMD socket 939 CPU smokes the Intel chip in the benchmarks.



Originally posted by: mitchafi
If I was going to spend 500 I'd go all the way and spend a couple hundredm ore to get an FX-53 or P4EE.
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I don't understand why the 3800 is priced at $700 when the FX-53 will be less than $100 more, with unlocked multipliers and double the cache. I think I'm going to get one of those when the FX-55's come out and they drop to ~500 and have newer steppings.
 
Originally posted by: remagavon
I don't understand why the 3800 is priced at $700 when the FX-53 will be less than $100 more, with unlocked multipliers and double the cache. I think I'm going to get one of those when the FX-55's come out and they drop to ~500 and have newer steppings.
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People are crazy. I wouldn't spend more than $200 on a proc myself personally (and that's pushing it)

I think the most I've spend in the last 4 years on a proc is about $130 on a Thunderbird 1.33 when 1.4 was the fastest.
 
Originally posted by: Sleeping
Originally posted by: FunkierThanU
Originally posted by: tedinde
AMd is king now and they are pricing accordingly!!! So i order a chip today. When can i order a board for it??
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Gotta say I'm loving my lowly754- AMD 64 3200+ !!!

According to the review a 6-11% performance gain at double the price... and I've got mine overclocked pretty dang close to that without breaking a sweat. And of course, mine is plugged into a 2nd gen motherboard too.

I will get a 939, but not today.
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What Mobo you using Funky?
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Chaintech VNF3-250, w/ the beta bios that opens up more o/c options & a gig of the snazzy OCZ PC3700 EB
 
Still confused over the whole 64 thing. Can you still run all your apps and games? sorry for the newb question.
 
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