754 v 939

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Hi all
I see that there are 2 amd 64 sockets available the 754 and 939.
What is the difference and which should I get? Also how long until PCI-e
interface boards become more available and hopefully cheaper, I have seen
only a few for around £120 while there are many more intel boards for less?
Would it be better to get an intel board now and a p4?

Thanks
Andy

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The 939 pin CPU supports dual channel memory traffic. The 754 pin does
not, only single channel.


kony wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:28:22 GMT, "joanne grint"
> <joanne.grint@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all
>>I see that there are 2 amd 64 sockets available the 754 and 939.
>>What is the difference and which should I get?
>
>
> 185 pins?
> 939 is newer, potentially longer viable life.
>
>
>>Also how long until PCI-e
>>interface boards become more available and hopefully cheaper, I have seen
>>only a few for around £120 while there are many more intel boards for less?
>>Would it be better to get an intel board now and a p4?
>
>
> PCI-E nforce4 boards are coming out any/every day now,
> haven't been watching close enough to tell you if every
> major board manufacturer has one in the market yet or not,
> but they're coming.
>
> If your most demanding use(s) of the system are shown to run
> faster with a P4, born out by benchmarks of the same
> application versions (old app versions don't necessarily
> apply), then the P4 is a better buy if you don't mind the
> extra heat & power requirements. Intel chipset motherboards
> have been among the best year after year, though the
> differences are fewer these days with everyone else's USB2
> and SATA being more mature now.
>
> I'd get the nForce4, it's not like you'll get a good P4
> based board for dirt-cheap either. Prices will drop, all a
> matter of how long you want to wait... is never cheap buying
> into the latest/fastest technology.

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"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
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> Dee wrote:
>
>> The 939 pin CPU supports dual channel memory traffic. The 754 pin does
>> not, only single channel.
>
> But, some 754 CPUs have 1MB cache, only the FX processors have them in 939
> CPUs. That more than makes up for the lack of dual channel.
>

no the Athlon 4000 has the same 1Mb 2nd level cache