AMD 64

[pandaking]

What is the differances between the differant sockets. Is there a differance in price? Are the MSI boards best for both? One other thing, what is the differances in the core's of the chips?
Any info / advice would be great, thanks....

 

[Lithan]

You really need to come up with more specific questions or else use search.

 

[pandaking]

OK, simply: What are the differances between the two sockets of amd 64's and what are the differant cores all about?

 

[imported_DangerMouse]

There is socket 754 and socket 939. Socket 939 supports double channel DIMM.
No big differences in performance.Very soon 754 will become obsolete. Socket 754 mobos are generally
considered more reliable and matured. But in 1 month new nforce4 socket 939 motherboards come out which will feature SLI ,PCI-Express GPU and few other nice things.
Consderning MSI boards. It seems both Neo Platinum and Neo platinum 2 are very good mobos.
Unfortunately very often people encounter poorly made ones. Something to do with quality control i guess.
Advice: go with nforce4 socket 939.

 

[EightySix Four]

Differences is pin count, the 939's have dual channel memory, the 754's do not. There are ClawHammer cores, the original with 1mb cache, there are Newcaste cores, the second with 512kb cache, and there are some new one's that are the same as Newcaste except on the 90nm process which makes them run cooler and in some cases faster.

 

[pandaking]

Great, thanks for the reply. So if I wait for the nforce 4 to come out - will that be msi producing them? Will go for the socket 939. So which proccessor do you recomend - bang for buck etc?

 

[Lithan]

Nothing special about MSI. They just have the best 939 board out for overclockers at the moment. 754 most people say DFI is best. It's not a consistant thing like it used to be (used to be abit was usually best). I say wait until you have some buddies with nf4 boards who'll tell you what they think of them, then pick one.

 

[pandaking]

Great thanks for your help. I was looking at the 3500 with the 90nm core, What do you think. Its apperntly great for overclocking, any views?

 

[Zero Plasma]

Apperntly...

 

[pandaking]

Im going to get the nforce 3 board and wait for any glitches to be discovered and let them evolve slightly. Was looking at getting the 3500 winchester but have just been told that the 3200 can be oc to the same amount as the 3500 can. is this true? if it is it will save me £50 so I am very interested.

 

[Lithan]

From what I hear they clock about the same. Certainly not 50lb difference anyway.