Fastest CPU for my Motherboard?

[SMM24691]

Hi Everyone. I know I am using old technology just not ready to update motherboards and video cards yet. I am running an Abit AV8 motherboard with Socket 939 Pin CPU. According to Abit's website, the following are supported:
Supports AMD Athlon™ 64 / Athlon™ 64 FX 939-pin & Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor
2000MHz system bus using Hyper Transport™ technology

My question is, what is the bottom line fastest/best CPU this motherboard can handle? Please advise.

 

[o1die]

Either the fx 60 single core, 4800 dual core or 4600 dual core. The 60 is 2600 hertz, the 4800 is 2400 with 1 meg cache, while the 4600 is 2400 with 512 meg cache. All are too expensive to be a worthwhile upgrade. It's cheaper to upgrade to am2. Newegg today had the 9850 quad core with 780g board for $170, and they sold out fast. It was a shellshocker deal.

 

[nsimo86]

That was an awesome deal, wish I wouldve needed it.

 

[SMM24691]

So which CPU would be the bottom line fastest? I am still not sure...

 

[o1die]

Any of those listed are plenty fast. The fx60 is fastest, but may be a little slower overall, since it's a single core cpu. It all depends on what else besides gaming you do with your system. If you can afford any of those cpus, you can't go wrong. I personally wouldn't pay much more than $125 for any old cpu; if your motherboard fails, you may have trouble finding a replacement, unless you already have a spare.

 

[Reynod]

FX60 is a dual core (2 X 1Mb cache) 90nm and runs at 2.6Ghz ... multiplier unlocked. Heaps of people just upped the multiplier on these and sailed past 3Ghz ... much further requires an overvolt.

The 4800 is basically the same E6 cpu but it is multiplier locked to 2.4Ghz

A 4400 runs at 2.2 Ghz but is easy to overclock (220FSB with HT link left stock) to 2.4 (4800+)

The FX57 is faster (2.8Ghz) but only a single core.

Take a look for yourself ...

http://products.amd.com/en-us/desktopcpuresult.aspx?f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=939&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=2000&f10=No

Opertons also came out in 939 ... up to the 185 from memory. You could get a slower one and overclock it I guess ... often these were a bit more expensive ... not so in the end (when the socket was announced as EOL).

Socket 939 was a bitter experience for many of us who bought quality mobos and AMD stranded us when they went to 65nm ... which alas brought us no great speed increase ... for an overclocker anyway.