Dual-core on socket 939

[c0d1f1ed]

Is there any official confirmation or very strong indication that dual-core Athlon 64 will be compatible with current socket 939 motherboards?

 

[Demo24]

yes. though the first dual cores will probably be on the 940 due to the fact its intended for servers

 

[mircea]

You can read here how my new A8N-SLI from Asus is already runing dual core AMD.

AMD's dual core socket 939 processors were also running in a back room on ASUS' A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboards - without modification. Although we had known for some time that dual core would only require a BIOS update on AMD motherboards (at worst), the knowledge that off-the-shelf motherboards running AMD's newest gave us a further boost of confidence for the future. This is also in stark contrast to Anand's report that Intel dual-core will not run on current 915/925 chipset motherboards.

 

[c0d1f1ed]

Great! Then buying a socket 939 CPU and motherboard is definitely worth the money over a socket 754. Thanks for the information!

 

[clarkey01]

Well, wont the first dual cores be slower then singles cores untill software is wirtten to take advantage of the two cores ? and thats about what ? 2 years away. I always buy a new CPU/motherboard anyhow.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
Well, wont the first dual cores be slower then singles cores untill software is wirtten to take advantage of the two cores ? and thats about what ? 2 years away. I always buy a new CPU/motherboard anyhow.

Lots of apps are multi-threaded now. Not games, but productivity and professional tools like video and image editing. They already benefit from Intel's Hyper-Threading, so dual core wont be any different. I believe dual core is supposed to give a 25-45% increase in performace, but we'll have to wait and see.