Athlon64 Confusion

[gxsaurav]

I m buying a new system, Athlon64 based, I tried to look on the internet for a good motherboard & CPU combo, there is a lot of confusion regarding core, MHz speed, cache etc can someone plz specify which CPU I should go for with which motherboard from ASUS or Gigabyte, motherboard has to be cheap

The CPU should be

1) SSE3 Compatible
2) Dual Channel DDR400
3) 90 nm or 130 nm which ever supports SSE3
4) Speed at 2GHz or above
5) 939 Pin

Now which Athlon64 I should go for & how can I find by looking at the retail bos that what I m buying

Correct me, Socket 754 AMD64 does not support SSE3 & Dual channel RAM & comes with 512 KB L2 Cache

 

[XBoxLPU]

All AMD64s are SSE 2 not SSE 3

All 939 Pin based chips have dual channel memory controller and so far all 939 CPUs have had only 512K cache ( 1mb cache doesn't really help performance much anyway so that is a dead factor )


939 3200 90NM ( 2ghz 512K cahce ) ( what I recommend )

939 3500 90NM ( 2.2ghz 512K cache )

 

[gxsaurav]

but I read on the Anandtech forums, that AMD64 with 90NM are SSE3 compatible

 

[JBT]

It was rumored at first the 939's would have SSE3. But they don't seem to be as of yet. It might be added in a later revision though.