939 or AM2

[EffeX]

If I go with the 939 my 200$ DDR ram will be obsolete in about a 4 days from now. Am I correct in asuming DDR2 ram is much more future proof than DDR ram?

 

[deeznuts]

Yes. And you will be able to go with AMD or Intel in the future, and if you need to sell, same thing, to amd or intel users.

 

[EffeX]

Well, does DDR2 667= DDR400 and are the revision 1 am2 boards gonna be buggy as hell

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: EffeX
Well, does DDR2 667= DDR400 and are the revision 1 am2 boards gonna be buggy as hell

DDR2 667, on most boards, is generally equivalent to DDR400. However, DDR2 is still being refined, and there are memory chips that are getting faster than DDR400 (at this point, i believe the number is 10%?). Rev1 AM2 boards will probably have some bugs, but they shouldn't be too bad. AMD has sent out test samples and reviews of AM2 don't seem to complain about too many bugs.

 

[EffeX]

So if im buying at the end of the month which one should I get? I want either the M2R32-MVP Deluxe or M2N32-SLi Deluxe

 

[JAG87]

depends on what video card your buying... try to match chipset with gpu and its a win win situation. overall nvidia chipsets performa much better then ati, but if you want a radeon I would go with the M2R32 so you can crossfire later.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: JAG87
depends on what video card your buying... try to match chipset with gpu and its a win win situation. overall nvidia chipsets performa much better then ati, but if you want a radeon I would go with the M2R32 so you can crossfire later.

i wasn't aware that was true with the new ATI chipsets.

 

[soydios]

Xpress 3200 performed pretty handily against any nForce 4 could throw at it. Of course, we won't have nForce 5 benchmarks until May 23, at the earliest.

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: JAG87
depends on what video card your buying... try to match chipset with gpu and its a win win situation. overall nvidia chipsets performa much better then ati, but if you want a radeon I would go with the M2R32 so you can crossfire later.

I wish that was always true, ask what some peoples experiance using 6800 series cards with nForce3 chipsets, i'm sure they did not think that at all. I know a person who changed his nForce 3 board for a k8t800 pro one cause the nvidia one was always crashing. I think he went through rma the nforce 3 board once then desided to change it, after that it worked fine.

EDIT: performance wise the diff between the 939 and am 2 wont be much, but u will be more future proof for a while, but take the risk of running into new system bugs. In the end i doubt it will be more future proof than socket 939 for much, everyone was saying how socket 754 was obsolete but really unless u wanted dual cores, socket 754 lasted just as long as 939.

 

[JAG87]

k dont bring up you bad experiences... everybody has some.

the fact is any nforce board as always performed better then its ATI and VIA competitor in synthetic benchmarks. In real life... well thats another story (drivers and other bull). But theoretically it has the best sata controller, the best USB transfer rate, the best ethernet bandwith and so on. It wins by little, but it wins. so if you want the best of the best for an AMD cpu youve got nothing but nvidia to choose. Just check the anandtech reviews on any motherboard with nforce, they usually do all these benchies and compare it to via based motherboards, and just look at the nforce win every single benchie.

 

[EffeX]

Yeah you are correct....I think an M2N32 and a Toxic Radeon X1900 XTX sound nice.