Recently a reader from The Inquirer has noticed on AMD’s road map, that the Socket 939 Athlon Processors will see the birth of 2 new baby brothers. The 939 socket was thought to be dead or dying, but a 5000+ and a mighty FX 62 are saying otherwise.
Upgrading from socket 939 to AM2 will cost you a lot of money as you need to buy a new motherboard, new CPU and new set of memory as you do need DDR 2 to make AM2 work. Now with 5000+ and FX 62 listed for 939 you will just be able to buy a new CPU and your old memory and board should support it.
For the gaming community this is huge news, as it seems with lower memory clocks on the AM2 show it to be slower than the 939 line of CPU’s, but once 1000 MHz ram is more standard and timings are perfected, I can only see the AM2 chip surpassing everything in its path.
Source: The Inquirer
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