nForce 4 for socket 754? Will it happen?

[MustangKilla]

Well, I am glad that I waited on a MB purchase, as nForce 4 sounds great! However- it has sh!te canned my CPU purchase, as I was after an AMD 64 3400+ w/ the 1MB L2 (socket 754). Now all I see on line for the nF4 chipset is the 939 socket based boards, which totally blows me backwards into re-researching AMD 64 CPU's. The current nF4 boards all look great, but should I wait and hope that an nF4 board(s) will be available for socket 754? Thanks all.

damon

 

[rammstein junkie]

well IIRC there havent been any plans revealed to release the Nforce4 chipset on socket 754. so you would be better off looking at either a different processor (they make a 3400+ in 939 but it dosent have 1MB l2 cache), or a Nforce3 mother board... whoat are your intentions with this computer anyway do you plan to overclock?

 

[MustangKilla]

No plans to over-clock, at least not as of yet. I like the NCQ feature as well as the speeds offered by the nF4. Perhaps I should just look into the 939's. I am just behind on hardware. Gotta find out the pro's and con's of 754 vs. 939 I guess.

 

[rammstein junkie]

umm do you want to use PCO-e or AGP that s a big thing to consider...

 

[MustangKilla]

I have a Leadtek GForce 4 4200Ti at present, which is ok (ran HL2 ok)- but I really need to upgrade anyways. Looks like a few PCI-e GForce 6600 GT's are not in too bad of a price range ~$200-250

 

[MustangKilla]

ANy suggestions for a socket 939 AMD 64? I am NOT lookin to get one of the FX series CPU's.

 

[mordantmonkey]

you can get a 90nm 3000 for ~$150 i hear they are good OC'ers too.

 

[Jeffyboy]

The chaintech nforec4 board looks good. As for socket 754... that'll be dead soon... everything will be 939 ;-) It's better that way ;-) hehe

Jeff

 

[DerKaiser]

Epox is planning to make a socket 754 nforce4 board.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20319

 

[MustangKilla]

Originally posted by: DerKaiser
Epox is planning to make a socket 754 nforce4 board.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20319

SWEET!!!!!! Thanks man, that's what I was looking for...

 

[will889]

I'm betting that SIS will also make some A754 boards. How good theywould be is another story.

 

[eas]

754 isn't going away any time soon, since AMD is moving their value line to it, and PCIe is going to be mainstream (nVidia already has low priced cards on the way), so you can bet there will be a variety of 754 PCIe boards, its just a matter of when

 

[MustangKilla]

I do look forward to a few 754 options within the next month or so. The 3400+ w/ 1MB L2 is a sweet deal

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: Jeffyboy
The chaintech nforec4 board looks good. As for socket 754... that'll be dead soon... everything will be 939 ;-) It's better that way ;-) hehe

Jeff

Ummm. No it won't. 754 will be around for awhile yet. AMD's Sempron is also on 754, and those aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[cheetah26]

so you can bet there will be a variety of 754 PCIe boards, its just a matter of when

does anybody know when?

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki...sku=303749&cks=ACC

 

[FastEddie]

Yes, nv4 for socket 754 will happen---> ECS News

 

[will889]

doesn't suprise me. i thought it would probably happen because of all of the semprons and regular a64's. what i would really like to see is a s754 matx nf4 that can really perform, and has default IGP like ...say 5700 ultra level gfx onboard with better DACS regarding onboard sound (for HTPC use). the thing i have noticed is that nvida abandoned the igp/matx for A64 completely.

 

[MustangKilla]

Thanks for all the great info guys, I am looking forward to gettin a new board w/in a month or 2

 

[hundesau]

dont know, why nobody is honest to u? Dont be stupid and go for socket 754!! Whats its advatage over Aocket 939? There is non! Except 5$ price difference. Socket 939 will have CPU upgrades (even dual core cpu`s at the end of 2005), it offers the A64`s with Winchester Cores instead of the old, hot and energy wasting Newcastle Core, so why buy the old stuff. Try to find out the other differences on ur own and u wont buy the old stuff, i bet. Cya.

 

[jterrell]

If you are buying a new mobo and prcoessor there is very little reason to grab a s754 solution unless you also happen to already have a 400 dollar vid card in agp.

If you are buying a new proc, mobo and vid card it would be rather silly to go s754. The savings would be very minimal and would be eatn by trying to cool the system to the retail level of a s939 one.

 

[doublejbass]

however, if you already HAVE a s754 processor, it becomes dicier.

 

[dornick]

Originally posted by: doublejbass
however, if you already HAVE a s754 processor, it becomes dicier.

He doesn't has one all ready as said in the first post.

To mustang, since you're upgrading everything (mb, proc, vid) go with 939. It's always better to go with the newer technology, even if it's slightly more expensive. Seeing as you were looking at the 3400 Clawhammer, your 939 options seem to be the 3200 Winch for $30 less, or the 3500 Newcastle for $50 more. I would personally go with the cooler Winchester, and slightly overclock to the level you're looking for.

 

[CALIKUSH]

Dicy explains my situation very well. As an owner of a Athlon 64 3000+ s754, I feel very neglected by the motherboard makers. I've been waiting for a pci-e enabled mobo for several months. It seems all these new pci-e chipsets are in low supply, and the makers used them only for socket 939 designs. I think that's kinda messed up. But I suppose this is the price I pay for being an early adopter. This frustrates me because I want a Radeon X800XL or newer pci-e card. All I'm asking for is a little more mileage out of my current system.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: DerKaiser
Epox is planning to make a socket 754 nforce4 board.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20319

Man, this has me thinking... I already have a 3400+ Clawhammer, this board would be pretty sweet with that chip. I'd just have to find a way to ditch my AGP X800 Pro for a PCI-E model...