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Is it wise to buy a socket 939 processor now before they become scarce.
I heard even the am2 are getting hard to get and whats comming out next? Ty
I heard even the am2 are getting hard to get and whats comming out next? Ty
Hi Peter,Peter said:Is it wise to buy a socket 939 processor now before they become scarce.
I heard even the am2 are getting hard to get and whats comming out next? Ty
Hawkeye said:In 5 years dual core cpu's will be a distant memory
John Doe said:
I said:
Kate said:There's also this deal for the ClawHammer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103492
It's $189 + free shipping AND if you enter AMDROCKS as a promo
code, you get $40 off. But the ClawHammer is .13 nm vs .09 of San
Deigo and Opty, AND the ClawHammer doesn't support the new(er)
Intel SSE3 instructions.
Kate said:The link J. Doe gave above is a great price for a 2.6 GHz Opty ($169).
It's exactly like the FX-55 San Diego core, except the Opty does HT @
1000mhz while the San Diego FX-55 does HT @ 2000mhz. Again though, how
many programs do we use that use hyperthreading?
OTOH, the Newegg deal comes with a free 250GB drive you can sell, so
the price will end up cheaper than the Opty, if you can sell the
drive for $65 (like in the local paper/recycler).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103527
(and for anyone who wants to buy this deal, you have to scroll down on
this page and click the "Add to cart" that's under the bundle deal --
not the one on top that's just for the CPU.)
There's also this deal for the ClawHammer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103492
It's $189 + free shipping AND if you enter AMDROCKS as a promo code,
you get $40 off. But the ClawHammer is .13 nm vs .09 of San Deigo and
Opty, AND the ClawHammer doesn't support the new(er) Intel SSE3
instructions.
If you wanna stay around $100, I think the fastest AMD 939 in that
price range is 2.2 GHz. If your current CPU is 1.3GHz or 1.4, jumping
to 2.2 would be a nice, noticable diff. for a relatively low price.
I happen to know I won't upgrade to Vista for about 5 years.
Conor said:You will. You just don't know the reasons why yet.
John Doe said:And you don't get the heat pipe heatsink/fan.
Thomas Wendell said:How are you going to hyperthread an OPty?? I though hyperthreading was
Pentium4 and Ds only???
That HT might be HyperTransport...
John Doe said:I said:
Or, as Kate pointed out in a recent post, if you need a 250 GB hard
drive too.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103527
That's $30 more, for a 250 GB hard drive and a CPU that is perhaps
slightly less reliable according to AMD.[...]
Kate said:Really? The San Diego core is less reliable?
Kate said:Yeah, I do... when I start to see programs are no longer being
offered as backwards compatible to XP, and are running better in
VISTA (able to use Vista's hyperthreading in ways that makes a
noticeable difference), and after all the initial kinks, security
loopholes and other crap has been sorted out on the GP... that's
when I upgrade my OS. <g>
John Doe said:This is what AMD says about the Opteron 100 series versus the Athlon
64/FX in their Frequently Asked Questions.
AMD wrote:
AMD Opteron 100 Series processors with ECC unbuffered memory are
produced on AMD Opteron processor die material and follow the same AMD
Opteron processor manufacturing process as do the 800 Series and 200
Series.
AMD Opteron 100 Series processors with ECC unbuffered memory undergo
the same AMD Opteron processor-level testing and validation as do the
800 Series and 200 Series.
Kate said:I saw someone else on a techy board say that the main diff between
the two (aside from the HT 1000 vs 2000 spec -- which they didn't
believe and thought both were probably 2000) was the the FX CPU is
unlocked for greater overclocking.
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