Fastest 939 Processor at Stock -- what will it be?

[WhipperSnapper]

I've been wondering about the future upgrade potential of my Socket 939 motherboard and how long it might be viable in the future. Would anyone care to speculate on what the most powerful non-FX Socket 939 processor will be when AMD decides to stop supporting Socket 939? Presumably, it would eventually decrease in price to a reasonable level, say, $200 just like the Socket 754 3700.

I assume that the most powerful chip for Socket 939 would be a dual core chip with 1 MB of cache on each core. But would the price ever drop to the point where a mere CPU upgrade would be worthwhile? (It would have to beat the overclock I'll get on my Opteron 148.)

 

[Shimmishim]

the FX-59 will be the fastest single core processor 3.0 ghz

the FX-60 will be the fastest dual core processor at 2.6 ghz per core.

the 939 chips might start dropping once the AM2 chips are released.... but like you said, it might take a while for the 939 chips to come down to the level of the 754 chips. you'll just have to wait

 

[PirreLi]

I didn't know they where gonna make a FX-59, just thought they where switching to dual core and making the FX-60.

 

[Skott]

No FX-58 (that I ever heard of) but there is a FX-59. Supposedly the FX-60 was going to be originally planned for single core but AMD decided to make it a dual core proc instead. Like Shim mentioned after the XF-59 doesnt look like much else planned for single core in AMD's lineup. M2 launches about mid year maybe a bit before that. I wouldnt expect them in quantity and reasonable price until late 2006 though. The dual core 3800 - FX-60 line should come down in price some as the M2s come out in quantities.