Does the 939 FX 53 chip have Cool & Quiet tech like the 3500 & 3800?

[Compddd]

Anyone know?

 

[Compddd]

btw why is newegg charging $811 for a boxed socket 940 FX-53 while outpost.com is charging $765 for the same chip lol

 

[Mik3y]

i'm pretty sure they do. its an extra feature thats optional to users and cool and quiet, if i'm thinkin correctly, is a feature thats embedded into the motherboard, so the fx is very likely to have cool and quiet.

 

[Compddd]

Sweet! Glad to hear it, would hate to have my 939 FX53 running at full blast while I am surfing the net lol

I asked because the socket 940 FX's don't have cool & quiet, and I looked at pics of socket 939 FX boxs and they don't say cool & quiet on them like the 3500 & 3800 boxes do

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Compddd
Sweet! Glad to hear it, would hate to have my 939 FX53 running at full blast while I am surfing the net lol

I asked because the socket 940 FX's don't have cool & quiet, and I looked at pics of socket 939 FX boxs and they don't say cool & quiet on them like the 3500 & 3800 boxes do

Then I would imagine they don't. The FX-53s are basically Opterons (sp?), I believe.

 

[4lpha0ne]

Well, all 1MB L2 K8 (A64, AFX, Opteron) share the same die (with the same memory controller). But Cool'n'Quiet doesn't work with registered mem. And S940 CPUs only work with reg. mem, which was necessary to get dual channel working for the earlier K8 core revisions. Thus S940 AFX and Opterons can't use Cool'n'Quiet.

With arrival of the CG stepping the dual channel issue has been fixed (signal quality problems with dual channel and many unbuffered DIMMs). So the S939 AFX can use dual channel unbuffered DIMMs, which means, Cool'n'Quiet is possible.