Socket 940, PCIE?

[xyber]

Does anyone know if socket 940 will have a chance in the PCIE supported boards later on? I know the 939 will, of course, but I was wondering if socket 940 CPUs like FX-51/fx-53(940) if they will have them later...

 

[biostud]

Sure it will come. I think that the Nforce4 will come to all three AMD sockets, and it would be a bit strange if workstations shouldn't be able to have PCIe.

 

[LifeStealer]

Most mobo makers (DFI for example) are planning on making a pci-e version and an agp version for their newer (geek speak) nf4's.

 

[xyber]

thank you for the answer... I can't wait for PCIE graphix to mature!! I'm getting a FX-53 socket 940 and buying Sk8V and registered RAM for cheap so im getting a top of the line system for nearly a budget price ^^

 

[biostud]

any reason why you don't buy a s939? Memory is cheaper and, it'll overclock better?

 

[xyber]

I can get the 940 moboard and registered ram from a friend for a very cheap price ^^ for example SK8V for 90 bucks and registered OCZ pc 3200 512x2 for 130... and the socket 940 fx-53 is 150 bucks cheaper than the 939

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: xyber
Does anyone know if socket 940 will have a chance in the PCIE supported boards later on? I know the 939 will, of course, but I was wondering if socket 940 CPUs like FX-51/fx-53(940) if they will have them later...

yes. iwill already has a dual socket 940 board with 2 pci-e slots. it should be coming out in november as they say.

 

[jose]

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Regards,
Jose

 

[fkloster]

DROOL!!!!

 

[xyber]

WIll dual graphix card board be good for gaming?? ^^

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: xyber
WIll dual graphix card board be good for gaming?? ^^

yes, since that's wut it's for.

 

[xyber]

holy crap, then wouldn't socket 940 own socket 939 later on for gaming?!

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: xyber
holy crap, then wouldn't socket 940 own socket 939 later on for gaming?!

no, since socket 939 will better utilize SLI then the 940. it's also proven that 99.9% of games out there do not benefit from SMP, so that a single FX-53 system with sli will perform as well as a dual opteron 250 with sli for less then half the cost. if you're talking about a single fx in socket 940, socket 939 still beats it because of certain reasons. sli does not equal the performance of 2 individual video cards. the performance gain would be only 60%ish, maybe more, maybe less. also, an opteron 150 is just a locked fx-53, and a 250 is the same except it can be run in dual cpu mode.

 

[bex0rs]

Will the only S940 boards sporting PCIe be dual-capable and up? It'd nice to find a good single-only S940 replacement for my SK8N. Nothing that is currently out would provide a significant upgrade.

 

[jose]

Things will change very soon when both AMD & Intel start releasing their dualcore processors. Nvidia claims a 90% improvement w/ sli, still waiting for reviews to backup their claims.

As for as 940 vs 939, overall computing power the 940 is more capable. It depends on what your doing w/ your computer whether you benefit from smp or not..

Read on 2cpu's site that Tyan will have 2 Nforce4 chipsets to double the pci-e lanes. It will have 2 - X16 slots !! Ofcourse it will be expensive. Also Iwill will have several versions of
sli capable A64 mobo's ..

Regards,
Jose