Differences between Socket 754+939?

[LordPhoenix]

So I might be getting a 64 bit CPU (and im probably gonna go with the a64 3000+ w/ dfi lanparty nforce 3 250)

And I hear about the socket 939. So, what are the differences? Any biggie? I don't see that much 939 motherboards so I doubt I'd go that way. But just incase...

 

[Appledrop]

3 advantages to 3000+ 939:-
will overclock to, or very close to, 2600mhz, an 800mhz overclock with stock cooling
with dual channel ram, you can run dividers to achieve good OC without low mem bandwidth
future upgradabilty

advantage to 754? not sure, probably cheaper though :l

 

[LordPhoenix]

I guess i'll go with 754. Not going into 939's territory anytime soon.

 

[isaacyang]

Originally posted by: Azzy64
3 advantages to 3000+ 939:-
will overclock to, or very close to, 2600mhz, an 800mhz overclock with stock cooling
with dual channel ram, you can run dividers to achieve good OC without low mem bandwidth
future upgradabilty

advantage to 754? not sure, probably cheaper though :l

I agree with the advantages to 939
but 754 has its own advantages:
1.cheaper MB
2.cheaper RAM and don't have to care much about 1T OR 2T and other timings.
3.754 MBs are more mature and available than 939 now.

 

[uOpt]

If your performance-critical applications benefit more from higher clockspeed than the larger cache or higher memory bandwidth (which is most apllications), then you get a 2.4 GHz AMD64 in Socket754 packet much cheaper.

Last time I checked your couldn't get an Asus board with NVidia chipset for Socket939.

And none at all with NVidia's non-pci Gigabit Ethernet.

Result: see my signature 🙂

The main drawback of the 754 stuff is that you can only have 2 RAM slots filled at full speed and 3 at reduced speed (possibly the reduction isn't actually required, but that's what the spec says).