AM2 Out ?

kmistry · 22 May 2006 at 09:47

I have noticed that OcUK have now got AM2 processors available.....man i thought they weren't gonna be out for a while.....

/me thinks about waiting for conroe :confused:

or perhaps i'll just go AM2

I'm off to find some reviews......man I love my placement

harris1986 · 22 May 2006 at 09:53

good work, i hadn't noticed this either! hmm so tempted but i think i'l wait it out and see how conroe compares and wait for all the bugs to be worked out

(also hopefully dfi will release a AM2 board)

PureAppleJuice · 22 May 2006 at 09:57

Wait for a while, let other people be the guinea pigs for the AM2 stuff

Irritating thing is i'd literally bought everything for S939, oh well, needed a new PC fast anyway.

Stelly · 22 May 2006 at 10:04

never noticed that either!

Stelly

kmistry · 22 May 2006 at 10:06

yeah i was going to upgrade as well, to s939, but i think now i will wait till just before i go back to uni and hopefully all the bugs will be worked out and we will be good to go !

/me waits in anticipation.......

Jay_t · 22 May 2006 at 10:36

I've already promised all my socket 939 kit to a mate so I'm commited to AM2 or Conroe. Question is, can I afford the 2GB of low latency DDR2 for either at about £350. Does anyone think DDR2 will get cheaper now AMD have adopted it?

easyrider · 22 May 2006 at 10:38

No Point for me going AM2 with my s939 system and my opty running at FX 62 speeds of the AM2 new chips I feel that I will be having my system for some time to come.

Quite a new feeling with the speed of technology advancing as fast as it does.

kmistry · 22 May 2006 at 10:41

I just noticed that the Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 is upgradeable to AM2 (however, this part of the board is not available) does anyone know if OcUK is going to be stocking this part/where i can get it from ,if even it is worth getting.....?

Thanks

easyrider · 22 May 2006 at 10:45

kmistry said:
I just noticed that the Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 is upgradeable to AM2 (however, this part of the board is not available) does anyone know if OcUK is going to be stocking this part/where i can get it from ,if even it is worth getting.....?

Thanks

Wouldn't bother TBH it would be easier to get a new mobo.
I dont see what all the fuss is about with AM2.

Its just a new socket that has slacker timing ram that offers no performance increase over s939.

Mul · 22 May 2006 at 10:48

Anyone know of some nice mATX AM2 boards coming soon?

Got plans to buy an AM2 Sempron 64 because of the 35W TDP, and need a good mATX board to compliment it.

Mul

kmistry · 22 May 2006 at 10:58

easyrider said:
Wouldn't bother TBH it would be easier to get a new mobo.
I dont see what all the fuss is about with AM2.

Its just a new socket that has slacker timing ram that offers no performance increase over s939.

It's probably the DDR2 support that everyone is looking at, but then again is it really going to be worth me going AM2 (as its more expensive, plus i will be building my computer for final year uni work, photoshop, video, some 3d, gaming......

Firegod · 22 May 2006 at 11:21

Does anyone know how well they'd overclock though? Or would it be similar to current s939 chips? Are these smaller die's btw? Or still 90nm?

easyrider · 22 May 2006 at 11:27

Firegod said:
Does anyone know how well they'd overclock though? Or would it be similar to current s939 chips? Are these smaller die's btw? Or still 90nm?

not as good as the 170's s939 i bet!

ash7jar · 22 May 2006 at 11:55

easyrider said:
not as good as the 170's s939 i bet!

lol seems that no one has a good word to say about AM2

Thing · 22 May 2006 at 12:01

Well the X2 4000+ looks pretty good. A cheap Opteron 170 (OK it probably won't clock as well) can't be a truly bad thing. Plus it's not much dearer than the X2 3800+.

Firegod · 22 May 2006 at 12:04

ash7jar said:
lol seems that no one has a good word to say about AM2

Hmm seems like it don't it, not to worry, I'm saving for a DX10 card + 2Gb RAM.

CPU is still quick enough for me atm.

easyrider · 22 May 2006 at 12:28

A new socket that comes should be faster and offer performance gains.
AM2 does not.

I would rather have a zippy s939 system and some nice tight ram over AM2!

easyrider · 22 May 2006 at 12:29

Firegod said:
Hmm seems like it don't it, not to worry, I'm saving for a DX10 card + 2Gb RAM. CPU is still quick enough for me atm.

I wouldn't wait for DX 10 By the time the games are released that support it your new DX 10 card will be 2-3 generations old and obsolete. :eek:

kmistry · 22 May 2006 at 12:31

good point, and i suppose, current good (by that i mean expensive

) cards will run dx10 games wont they......

man my sig sucks

ajgoodfellow · 22 May 2006 at 12:32

It does offer some gains, namely huge bandwidth offered by the 333MHz HTT. The tested memory bandwidth on Gibbo's test system was 15GB/s!

It's only in the region of a few percent though so it's not a huge jump by any stretch of the imagination. It's nice that they've kept the clock speeds the same though (and not reduced them like when they moved from Socket 754 to 939)