Dual Cores from AMD

Hi all, I have a gigabyte k8ns-939 mobo, and I recently have started paying attention to the hype machine of dual core procs, I was curious as to if anyone knows if AMD is sticking with the 939 socket for their dual cores due at the end of this year or if they are taking another platform to do it. I would hate to go and buy a a8n-sli, and find out that the dual cores arent going to be compatible. Thanks for any info

Fish is right - everything you hear about the dual-core CPUs right now is rumor and conjecture. I'll know for sure what it will be when they are released. Pat posted a link in Mobo section for an article by the Inquirer that states they won't be s939 and the article seemed to have sound reasoning, but I refer to my previous rumor/conjecture statement...

"He who will not risk, cannot win"
- John Paul Jones

Nothing official, but I'm fairly certain it will work. Socket 939 isnt that different from 940, and it is confirmed dual core opterons will work in existing s940 boards with just a bios upgrade. I see no reason why S939 would be any different.

Furthermore, it is confirmed that AMD will produce a dual core Athlon (FX) product.. if that will not fit into S939, then where would it fit in ? There are not many enthousiast type of S940 boards, so that is hardly an option, and a new socket is no-no for such a low volume product, so that leaves S939 boards, or no dual core Athlon.

One last thing; depending on what you do, I wouldn't hold my breath for dual core. Unless you run some CPU bound, properly multithreading app, the performance increase just won't be there. As it is, only a few workstation apps really benefit from more than one core/cpu, and precious few consumer apps. And in spite of what some will tell you, it will take a very long time before we see usefull multithreading in games and plenty of other apps. Media encoding could benefit substantially though, but that is about the only consumer grade app I see that would warrant dual core in the foreseeable future.

Just my 2 cent

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AMD seems to disagree with the INQ:

<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_11787,00.html" target="_new">http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_11787,00.html</A>

BTW, I also seem to remember reading something on new sockets from AMD, but ARAIR, it wasn't known if they where real, let alone what they where for. Could be for K9 as well.

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As Endyen implied, the new sockets might be used to support DDR2, but if AMD is going to release a new socket required for CPU's launched in a couple of months, we'd have known for some time now.

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The first generation of dual-core processors will definitely use socket 939. Later new sockets will appear for newer memory types and increased bandwidth.

So buy that socket 939 board. It's going to last a long time.