Socket 939 vs Socket 754

[mubeensgh]

Hi one and all 🙂

I've heard rumours that Socket 939 allows CPUs to support more multimedia extensions than Socket 754. Is this true?? Also what is the difference in arhitecture of these two CPUs??!!

Thanx in advance

 

[slurmsmackenzie]

if you are refering to sse3, you are incorrect. current 90nm 939's (at least) don't have those instructions. get the 754. it's the equivalent to peyton and eli. sure eli's great, but he doesn't have the experience, or the recievers (tried and true chipsets) to beat out his older bro. a good cpu notwithstanding, but a pale comparison to it's older brother

 

[charloscarlies]

Originally posted by: slurmsmackenzie
if you are refering to sse3, you are incorrect. current 90nm 939's (at least) don't have those instructions. get the 754. it's the equivalent to peyton and eli. sure eli's great, but he doesn't have the experience, or the recievers (tried and true chipsets) to beat out his older bro. a good cpu notwithstanding, but a pale comparison to it's older brother

lol...probably the first time i've heard somebody other than myself refer to computer components as football players.

Personally I went 754 and haven't looked back. There just aren't many good 939 boards yet from what I've seen. Prices are finally getting reasonable though with the new 90 nm chips.

 

[slurmsmackenzie]

hehehe..... not that eli doesn't have pottential. he just has to learn the offense. and seeing that the usual enthusiast will upgrade mobo/cpu together, there's no sense in fretting over upgrade ability for the future. PCIe... bah! dual channel memory.... bah! don't forget the 90nm 939's are clocked 200mhz below their 130 counterpart! so when comparing, go 2800 to 3000, 3000 to 3200. when keeping that in mind price/performance is easily 754.

 

[charloscarlies]

Originally posted by: slurmsmackenzie
hehehe..... not that eli doesn't have pottential. he just has to learn the offense. and seeing that the usual enthusiast will upgrade mobo/cpu together, there's no sense in fretting over upgrade ability for the future. PCIe... bah! dual channel memory.... bah! don't forget the 90nm 939's are clocked 200mhz below their 130 counterpart! so when comparing, go 2800 to 3000, 3000 to 3200. when keeping that in mind price/performance is easily 754.

Couldn't have said it better my friend.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

what is going on with the football???? well put though. i think that 939 will be doing a buch of growing up over the next few months though

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: slurmsmackenzie
if you are refering to sse3, you are incorrect. current 90nm 939's (at least) don't have those instructions. get the 754. it's the equivalent to peyton and eli. sure eli's great, but he doesn't have the experience, or the recievers (tried and true chipsets) to beat out his older bro. a good cpu notwithstanding, but a pale comparison to it's older brother

Both sockets use the same chipsets (nForce3 250, K8T800Pro). The upshot to 939 is the ability to upgrade to a dual core chip later on.

 

[laurenlex]

So I have learned that socket 754 is almost as fast as 939 in almost all situations, but cheaper. Dual channel memory does not help but 5-10% in games, ect... But would socket 939 be faster in video encoding than 754?

 

[rgreen83]

not really, look how the p4 has traditionally dominated the encoding area, clockspeed is what matters most here, so for equivalent cash, you could get 200 mhz more out of a 754, and maybe even 1mb cache, which would also help more than the added mem bandwidth.

 

[CraigRT]

definitely go S754, there is basically no real advantages of going S939 at all..

I am so whole-heartedly happy with my 3200+/S754 setup.. I just love it! 🙂