AMD 3200/939Pin CPU WHEN???

[Luthien]

Does anyone have any information on when or if AMD will add the 3200/939Pin CPU for boards like the A8V by Asus. I would love to get in on the 939 setup but am not going to pay $500 for a CPU to start in it.

 

[Zebo]

Why are you waiting? Just get the $270 3200+ OC to 3700+ which performs better than the $800 939 3800+ as shown in HardOCP's review.

Dual channel does very little.

 

[Luthien]

Zebo what motherboard are you using? k8v-SE deluxe by asus? Looking at all the problems people are having with the mobo makes me nervous. The newer K8N-E deluxe I was going to buy is delayed for a month so I might as well wait and see with 939 that I have had my eye on for 6 months. I have been using ASUS now for half a decade at least exclusively and dont want to use use another brand. The thing is I usually have 3 or four systems very similiar based on the same Asus mobo so messing around with different motherboards for me takes too much time.

 

[BlindBartimaeus]

I have the VNF-250 from Chaintech which that company has always rhymed with chit for me, but this is a VERY good basic overclocking board. Put a firewire PCI card for 12 bucks in it and I am in good shape. 7.1 envy cards from newegg for 23 if you gotta have it. have a 3000+ @ 2.4 with the stock HSF or 2.35 with a quiet one. Going to order a CG 3200 2.2 gig that I am willing to bet will get 2.5 without much problems. It will be a monster psuedo budget gamer.

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Why are you waiting? Just get the $270 3200+ OC to 3700+ which performs better than the $800 939 3800+ as shown in HardOCP's review.

Dual channel does very little.

agreed... dual channel / mem bandwidth isn't as important to a64's / amd processors (minus the fx) as with the intel processors...

the gain between skt 754 and skt 939 is almost non-existant at least from the reviews i've seen..

the only benefit i see is the ability to run fx and a64 chips on th same board now (same pin count) with non-ecc memory

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Luthien
Zebo what motherboard are you using? k8v-SE deluxe by asus? Looking at all the problems people are having with the mobo makes me nervous. The newer K8N-E deluxe I was going to buy is delayed for a month so I might as well wait and see with 939 that I have had my eye on for 6 months. I have been using ASUS now for half a decade at least exclusively and dont want to use use another brand. The thing is I usually have 3 or four systems very similiar based on the same Asus mobo so messing around with different motherboards for me takes too much time.

None. Like you it's the only thing stopping me from doing what I said earlier. I like tried and true overclockers mobos. Combine that with the overclocking features I'd like to see in a mobo w/o using Vmods and/or clock gen the choices to make this happen are dubious at best right now. Since i don't play gunea pig and RMA games I'm waiting and reading a lot. But the mobo situation is not any better for skt 939 either so if you're going to go A64 might as well risk it on cheaper mechandise, skt 734.

EDIT another issue for me is the mobile 64's- make the mobo choices about 4x more risky since sometimes one has to use some hacked alpha third party bios and still have worse functionality. The boards it does work with using OEM bios give these setups all sorts of bugs and worse function. Unfortuantly you can only get the good overclockers CG revision 3200+ in a moblie or DTR making the mobo prospects very poor. The regualr desktop 3200+ comes in the C0 stepping which sucks relative to CG found in mobiles or DTR for Overclcoking. Add to that the C0's heat spreader which raises the temps and lowers OC ability the desktop 3200 a very poor choice.

 

[Bar81]

Originally posted by: Luthien
Does anyone have any information on when or if AMD will add the 3200/939Pin CPU for boards like the A8V by Asus. I would love to get in on the 939 setup but am not going to pay $500 for a CPU to start in it.

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