hi ive accumalated a few quid, and thinking of treating myself to a new mobo cpu and graphics card ,
I fancy a new pci ex card and the 939 cpu so will have to wait for a bit any advice or news on details coming out would be apprecaited , :ukflag:
If you're fancying a new PCIEx card, you'll have to wait for a chipset revision that supports it. I'd give it 2 - 3 months. I'd also wait about the same amount of time for s939 bugs to get worked out, and the motherboard revisions to settle down.
the new asus board basted on the K8T800Pro looks to be quite nice, A8V Deluxe.
and from what I've seen of benchies from the production samples, the 3800+ is going to be your best bet (the lack of memory bandwidth cripples the 3700+, and the extra cache on the Fx-53 doesn't justify its cost). however, when these come out these chips are all going to be EXTREMELY expensive, as in the initial prices of all of the 939 pins are $650+... thats US DOLLARS. as for pci express, i somehow doubt that the initial offerings will offer much of a performance increase over their agp brethren (much like the s939 transition, in fact), so if i were you, at least for the next several months, im going to have to say old rev. A64 and AGP is going to be the way to go, unless you absolutely must have an upgradable mobo
and from what I've seen of benchies from the production samples, the 3800+ is going to be your best bet (the lack of memory bandwidth cripples the 3700+, and the extra cache on the Fx-53 doesn't justify its cost).
I think cripples is too strong of a description. The FX-53 is usually only 3-6% faster than the 3700+. Also, Aces Hardware says that from their testing If you run the FX-53 in single channel mode you get scores identical to the S754 3700+.
Our 3700+ was in fact an Athlon FX-53 with only one channel and one DIMM. We are 100% convinced that our Athlon 64 3700+ results are accurate and correspond with a "normal" Athlon 64 3700+. Bandwidth and latency characteristics of a FX-53 with one channel are identical to an Athlon 64 3700+ (as can be seen from the 3400+ results), and both cores are the same apart from the dual channel support on the FX-53. You could also argue that Socket 939 has a 1 GHz DDR (2 GHz effective) Hypertransport connection, but so does the K8T800 Pro chipset, which is also available for Socket 754. Besides, the HT speed makes no difference in most benchmarks. Of course, the FX-53 and 3800+ ran with two channels of memory.
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and from what I've seen of benchies from the production samples, the 3800+ is going to be your best bet (the lack of memory bandwidth cripples the 3700+, and the extra cache on the Fx-53 doesn't justify its cost). however, when these come out these chips are all going to be EXTREMELY expensive, as in the initial prices of all of the 939 pins are $650+... thats US DOLLARS. as for pci express, i somehow doubt that the initial offerings will offer much of a performance increase over their agp brethren (much like the s939 transition, in fact), so if i were you, at least for the next several months, im going to have to say old rev. A64 and AGP is going to be the way to go, unless you absolutely must have an upgradable mobo
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 processor $799 each
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor $720 each
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ processor $710 each
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor $500 each
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For the A64 dollars right now, you pretty much can't beat the A64 3200+ and a K8T800 Pro based motherboard, red777.
thanx again
It appears that AMD hired the guy at intel that sets the prices...
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I think cripples is too strong of a description. The FX-53 is usually only 3-6% faster than the 3700+. Also, Aces Hardware says that from their testing If you run the FX-53 in single channel mode you get scores identical to the S754 3700+.
Aceshardare S939 review pg3