Whos sitting waiting for socket AM2?

[Baked]

I haven't upgraded in years. I will wait till AM2 matures and faster DDR2 to come out before upgrading the whole shbang. I don't feel like putting my money on S939.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
I'm not... I bought an opteron 165 🙂...

Unless all of a sudden AM2 brings very significant performance increases in many areas, then I would be selling my parts 🙂.

Well THG says that it performs worse than the 939 equivalent, atleast with DDR2 667. Thats why they are waiting till June to release AM2 and run DDR2 800 standard.

Tthe memory controller might be borked on that engineering sample as Sisoft doesn't show a higher memory bandwidth compared to DDR 400. There was a rumor that the memory controller needed to be fixed before final launch, in which time DDR2 800Mhz will be more readily available, so it shouldn't hurt AMD's sales.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=29776

 

[ForumMaster]

well, considering i'm cheap and still using socket 462, i see no reason to not sleep at night waiting for AM2. anyway, i agree with all the cons you said. if there is no major performance increase, why should pay for a completly new system? i will upgrade when time and money permit to a mature socket 939 system. anyway, i have the old AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ and while it ain't blazing fast at all, it certainly does everything i can ask from it.

 

[GamerExpress]

I don't think the AM2 will really catch on with people for quite some time after the release.

 

[KoolHonda]

I'm waiting for AM2, but only in hope that X2 prices will drop🙂

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Soccerman06

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
I'm not... I bought an opteron 165 🙂...

Unless all of a sudden AM2 brings very significant performance increases in many areas, then I would be selling my parts 🙂.

Well THG says that it performs worse than the 939 equivalent, atleast with DDR2 667. Thats why they are waiting till June to release AM2 and run DDR2 800 standard.

tomshardware says a lot of things. I'm expecting this to just be a lateral move just to keep AMD from being tied to an old memory tech that S/D will cause to become expensive for end users. I doubt there will be much advantage in the switch, at least not initially.

 

[darXoul]

I'm not. Right after CeBit, I'm upgrading my rig. Just waiting for RD580 boards, GF 7900 GTX benchmarks / prices and new S-IPS panel 20" 8 ms monitors. Everything should be available still in March so I'm not holding off until June. Due to different reasons: lack of future-proof solutions in the PC world, immaturity of new socket, new heatsink requirements, only the X2 5000+ and FX-62 being launched at the time of socket launch, no tangible performance increase over 939, etc. etc.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: biostud
My guess those switching to AM2 are either s754 or older, or Intel users. (Or those who want the latest and greatest no matter what 😛)

Im socket 754 and i learned my lesson again from that. Previously was a socket 423 user, im not gonna buy the lastest again just to have it replaced 6 months later. 939 for me!

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: alimoalem

Originally posted by: biostud
My guess those switching to AM2 are either s754 or older, or Intel users. (Or those who want the latest and greatest no matter what 😛)

yup, totally agree. i have a p4 2.8GHz with 800Mz FSB...i'm doing fine, it's just MX440 that's getting a bit old (actually it was old when i bought it in '03 😛). i'm not waiting for june to get the AM2. i wanna see how it fairs for 6-12 months, wait for the bug fixes, then buy it. i'm perfectly fine with my 2.8 intel for another year or so. plus, as a previous poster mentioned, intel might actually turn up something good this time. i guess i'll just wait and see

btw OP, i voted for "it's the next best thing" or something like that so here's one post from one of those voters for ya 😉

Gd to hear from the pro AM2 crew :thumbsup:

 

[Fox5]

I'm waiting for AM2, then I'll see prices and if they're too high I'll do 939.

I'm currently on an Athlon XP Mobile/AGP system. I figure AM2 would be a nice upgrade path, and since any upgrade right now would require replacing almost everything, I might as well replace everything and have a bit longer upgrade path. Plus, large capacity DDR2 is less problematic than DDR and cheaper. (The FX-60, in multithreaded apps, offers about twice the performance of an Athlon XP 3200+, so it seems like a good upgrade too)
That, and I'll need an upgrade eventually. I figure the X800XT I just bought it about the dead end of AGP for performance, so I'll need to go pci-express sometime. That, and an Athlon XP 3200+ is getting a bit slow to be called high end gaming, it just barely breaks the 60fps average barrier on most games now, and will dip significantly lower under heavy conditions. (hate seeing RTS games chug from having too many units on screen...)

Oh, if socket 1207 or whatever the new opteron socket is seems to be coming out within 6 months to a year after AM2 (either to desktop or cheap server chips), maybe I'll wait for that, integrated pci express sounds tempting.

 

[Trey22]

Since I don't currently have a rig (only a work lappy that doesn't run games), I'll be waiting for AM2. This makes sense for me since I no investment in any desktop components.

I'm sure AM2 will edge out S939 by release time, once they work out the bugs, get things stable, etc.

When I jump onto a new platform, I always start with entry level parts if possible, so this would be my only worry, if AMD's initial AM2 cpu offerings are either limited and/or highly priced.

Edit: A search (ripped from another post) turned up this on initial offerings:

Dual-core

FX-62 2.8GHz Dual-core 2x1MB cache
X2 5000+ 2.6GHz Dual-Core 2x1MB cache)
At least three more X2s

Single-core

A64 4000+ - 2.6GHz 512KB cache
A64 3800+ - 2.4GHz 512KB cache
A64 3500+ - 2.2GHz 512KB cache

Semprons:

Sempron 3500+ - 2.2GHz 256KB cache
Sempron 3400+ - 2.0GHz 256KB cache
Sempron 3200+ - 1.8GHz 256KB cache
Sempron 3000+ - 1.6GHz 256KB cache