AMD Says Goodbye to Socket A

15 Jul, 2005 at 9:56am ET Article published in Tech

Here is a picture posted by The Inquirer.

[img]http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/gorn.jpg[/img]

And just in case you think that AMD Socket A will go on forever, this slide sent to us by an anonymous donor shows that indeed, it’s gone forever.

Goodbye Socket A, you were a good socket.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

15 Jul 2005 ~ 10:06am BuddyJ NOES!!!! I love my Socket A.
15 Jul 2005 ~ 10:42am Garg Must overclock harder for auld lang syne...
15 Jul 2005 ~ 12:03pm profdlp Farewell, trusty friend.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 1:03am Komete I would say I got my monies worth out of this 2500mobile..

Anyone notice the token white guy in the pic?
16 Jul 2005 ~ 3:59am Shorty So sad to see such a legend go :bawling:

You served us well!
16 Jul 2005 ~ 4:53am Thrax :bawling:
16 Jul 2005 ~ 1:39pm EyesOnly Does this mean my computer will stop working now?
16 Jul 2005 ~ 3:06pm Spinner

EyesOnly wrote:

Does this mean my computer will stop working now?

I think so.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 4:22pm RWB

EyesOnly wrote:

Does this mean my computer will stop working now?

Yeah you better take you're existing Socket A's out somewhere safe where it won't harm anything of value when they self terminate.

I can't even count the number of Socket A systems I've owned, much less built for others.... it sure is a new era, but is it a better one? Or will I have to continually have to upgrade everything in my system for the next gen stuff? IE my Socket 754 system which I now pretty much have to upgrade CPU, Motherboard and even my graphics card :shakehead
16 Jul 2005 ~ 4:38pm Thrax You were advised that 754 would be a dead standard within 18 months. Everyone on this site who currently owns 754 was.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 6:36pm RWB When Thrax? I never heard anything of the sort, I am not upset by any of this, but I do have to pretty much wait on any decent upgrades until I have the money to upgrade everything. Which might have been a good thing in the long run anyways.

I can't recall if it was 940 or 939 which came about 3 or so months after buying this setup, at that time the whole thing of turning socket 754 into a low end setup wasn't even made.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 6:48pm profdlp Socket 754 is the "Slot A" of today. I had my dad go with a Slot A Athlon 700 when they first came out. At the time it was the fastest computer I had ever seen. Within 18 months (maybe less) the move to Socket A (Socket 462) was complete and he was left holding an obsolete relic. I still have his old MB & CPU, but at least one of them no longer works. I'll probably never know which, seeing as how Slot A components are so hard to come by.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 8:02pm Spinner I've built a few Socket 754's for clients, simply because at the time, there was no feasible, prefered (motherboard choices) or cost effective 939 alternatives. It was a short period of time when this was the case, but in that short cross over period, if you wanted an Athlon 64 and wanted it on a budget, 754 was the only solution.
17 Jul 2005 ~ 5:08am Shorty Ive sold my 754's. It was nice to have A64 early but the socket 939 juggernaut rolls on
20 Jul 2005 ~ 12:00pm EyesOnly

Spinner wrote:

I think so.

OH NOES :bawling: :bawling:

After being quite inactive for a while i saw this post and realised what a great oppurtunity it would be to make a joke. Unfortunatly many of you knew my level of expertise and realized i was joking. I sure wouldn't have minded seeing someone explain to me why my cpu wouldn't go dead. Oh well.

As for my next system i have no idea what it will be and wont have untill i build it. So far my 2800+ has more to give so it wont be switched anytime soon.