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Athlon64 FX53, Socket 939 3400+ & 3700+ Due on Mar 29th???
From [link=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13525 ]The Inquirer[/link]
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FRENCH SITE X86-Secret said that AMD will start its move to Socket 939 on the 29th March.
According to the site, on that date AMD will roll out not only the Athlon 64 FX 53, but also Socket 939 chips with PR ratings of 3400+ and 3700+.[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.x86-secret.com]X86-Secret[/link]
[blockquote]
FRENCH SITE X86-Secret said that AMD will start its move to Socket 939 on the 29th March.
According to the site, on that date AMD will roll out not only the Athlon 64 FX 53, but also Socket 939 chips with PR ratings of 3400+ and 3700+.[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.x86-secret.com]X86-Secret[/link]
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After you to have envisaged (successfully) the final name of Pentium 4 Prescott (Pentium 4 ' E') and goes back it to launching of the platform grantsdale, we can now let to us go to some speculations on the date of exit of Athlon 64 Socket 939. According to several recut Russian sources (obviously much more reliable than those of Xbit which announced the FX53 for last December and which was relayed per many of other sites without any checking), the date of official launching of the platform Socket 939 is currently scheduled for... 29 the Mars! If this date say something to you, it is that it is identical to that which we announce to you for the Grantsdale platform. Having probably still across the throat the launching of Pentium 4 EE that INTEL very intentionally placed the same day that the range Athlon 64/FX, AMD probably seek to return with INTEL the currency of its part. 29 the Mars, we will thus see appearing Athlon 64 3400+ in Socket 939. Athlon 64 3700+ Socket 939 and Athlon 64 FX 53 should as for them appear either a little later, or at the same time, us have not been able yet to obtain this information. For recall, the principal interest of Socket 939 will be to offer Dual Channel Unbuffered to Athlon 64, currently in single channel. This makes unfortunately null and void in the very short term the platform Socket 754. More serious, AMD does not seem to want to give too bad conscience by giving up too early this platform. Athlon 64 3200+ and 3000+ will be available besides only in version Socket 754 and not in Socket 939, which induces that the user wanting to offer a system AMD64 at low prices will be obliged to turn to Socket 754, even if it will have a null evolutionarity then. A cornélien choice... especially as one sees the good performances offered by this processor.
1. Facilitate the addition of DDR2 support.
2. Use less layers in the manufacturing of the Opteron/AFX51.
3. A die shrink.
4. Make it far less expensive for the consumer.
1. s939
2. pci express
3. ddr2
what else do we have to look forward to?
Don't Forget the new BTX Layout, the NV40 and R420 GPUs
Personally, I'm waiting to see what the socket 939 CPUs do; however, my system is an AXP running @ 2.3GHz so it isn't like I'm presently hurting for speed.
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If I want to pgrade again, I can later in August for my birthday, when the prices will have come down from the release (if you think, first it comes out with high prices in the US on 29th March, takes ages to get to the UK, at which point it will cost alot more, so you will need to wait more anyway). Basically if you are waiting for Socket 939 in the UK, it's going to be a long wait.
But there is just the one question now, which motherboard?
I was refering to motherboard for an existing Athlon 64. The ABit board has a silly heatpipe and also has no legacy ports, which makes it out of the question, and the Asus board is a via chipset, which I am still warey about.
Regarding 64 bit, I can use it in Linux now anyway, and in Windows when it comes out, so I will get a chance to try it anyway,
Are the boards pretty stable now or are they still a little buggy? As currently I am so ripped between buying and not buying, I have no idea what to do. Any ideas on the pricing for the new chips and boards? If there are even any boards announced...
I would personally wait until April to see what happens with 939.
I am not going to buy a Socket 940 board as they are stupidly expensive, have a look - http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/kl.asp?AvdID=1&CatID=10&GrpID=13&t=2023&l=2
Based on?
I like many others don't use linux though i have consired using some build of knoppix as a posibility in a foldingbox other than that i'm going for windows, hence why i don't care that linux as of now does have 64bit support. I don't know much about existing 64bitboards so i can't comment about them. As for newer boards wouldn't they be different then existing and perhaps support legacy ports. We don't know yet. As for which chipset being good or bad that something i can't answer either.
I said Asus or Abit since the members of this site seems to agree that their boards are the best ones for socket A and i figured the same to be true for socket 7xx and 9xx. Only time and benchmarks will tell.