am2 vs skt 939

Matt Russell

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I'm a little confused about am2 and skt 939.

Is 939 dying out? and what RAM do they both need? I was about to get my brother to buy a socket 939 system, on a very tight budget, but with the idea of possibly upgrading processor, ram and gfx later, but is this going to become as hard as upgrading his 32bit systems has recently become?

Thanks for the input,
Matt
 
If building from scratch then AM2 is the newer socket so that would be the better option.

If thats what youre doing tho have you looked at a conroe system. Do you have a budget in mind?
 
nah im pretty sure there phasing out 939 and having AM2 as a all-in-one solution for sempron, athlon, athlon X2 and Athlon FX
 
939 is still about whilst parts are starting to become more scarse, 939 requires standard ddr ram (non ecc registered) whilst am2 requires ddr2 ram, personally if you were on a budget i'd go with a 939 based system gfx and ram will still be about and compatable so upgrading in the future there wouldn't be a problem, what sort of budget were you looking at? maybe we could help spec you a suitable computer? also depending on your budget have you looked at the 775 intel series mainly the core 2 duo based systems?
 
if ANYONE was to go 939 now they would be wasting there money as like jokester said there is no more production of 939 chips and hasnt been for 6months now, and not just that the more logical of options would be either AM2 or 775 C2D the current best option would be 775 with a C2D
 
If u worried about future proofing the setup then read after the roadmap. Below is the AMD roadmap for the immediate future. This is probably all u going to get from AMD for now until they release their retort to the 'conroe'. So to answer your answer in brief - 939 is on its way out and AM2 is in close pursuit.

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ AM2 Dual 2.4 1MBx2 89W 6/6/06
Athlon 64 X2 4600+ AM2 Dual 2.4 512KBx2 89W 6/6/06
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ AM2 Dual 2.2 1MBx2 89W 6/6/06
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ AM2 Dual 2.2 512KBx2 89W 6/6/06

Sempron 3800+ AM2 Single 2.2 256KB 35W Q4'06
Sempron 3600+ AM2 Single 2.0 256KB 35W Q2'06
Sempron 3500+ AM2 Single 2.0 128KB 35W 6/6/06
Sempron 3400+ AM2 Single 1.8 256KB 35W 6/6/06
Sempron 3300+ AM2 Single 1.8 128KB 35W 6/6/06
Sempron 3100+ AM2 Single 1.6 128KB 35W 6/6/06 "

It think most of these should be out by now, but never the less AMD has take the back seat to intel (hate to say it, i've been an AMD patriot for the last 6 years) due to conroe. Nice thing about Intel is they have planned their roadmap a whole lot better and as an example: celeron d processor works on the same mb as the latest conroe (providing the mb supports conroe, but the socket, etc hasn't changed). They've got a winning combination at the moment and price to performance figure prove that.

So if u serious about uprading (especially on a budget), research every piece of data available at the moment before u decide. What u spend hard earned cash on how may be obsolete in 6months time as far as upgrading goes. (Sorry AMD)
 
kk, thanks lotsly for all that input :D its very helpful. I'll talk to him, and figure out a system based on the AM2 socket, and also take a look at the conroe. One of my aims was definately to make sure the system is upgradeable in the future, although if that pushes the budget too far, future upgrades may become less important.

Thanks again, I'll be back with any more questions if i need to :D

Matt
 
Right now I'd say, assuming Conroe isn't an option, the only AMD I'd look at buying is a second hand one. You can get superb used bargains on s939 kit right now :)
 
Matt Russell said:
I'm a little confused about am2 and skt 939.

Is 939 dying out? and what RAM do they both need? I was about to get my brother to buy a socket 939 system, on a very tight budget, but with the idea of possibly upgrading processor, ram and gfx later, but is this going to become as hard as upgrading his 32bit systems has recently become?

Thanks for the input,
Matt
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i was in your situation as well.

Although reviews haf shown that there's not much performance increase from 939 to AM2, but AM2 would be the way forward.

and if u're on a budget, get the AM2 Sempron. And i would highly recommend the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard, which has a lot onboard features. The onboard nVidia 6150 gfx is even able to handle some light gaming.
 
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Matt Russell said:
where are good places to get second hand kit? Is there a section on these forums with people selling? I had a look, but couldn't see one.

Cheers,
Matt
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yes there is matt, you first need 250posts to access it though, but you can see many steals on there think there is currently a amd 3200 for £35 (skt 939) in there!
 
hmm... i got some posting to do. My old account got banned :( the sig was too large, so that's why my post count is so low...

naro: That's the kit I found to be best. The onboard graphics saves buying a gfx card, for now. Everything's about £10 more expensive for AM2, which adds up to way over budget :( Can anyone reccomend me a PSU that will be capable of driving potentially 6 HDD, a high end (not sli) gfx card and highish end processor (am2 probably) that isn't gonna burn the pocket :P
 
kk, well he wants 1TB of storage, gigabit switch, mobo, processor, ram, gfx (on board will do) PSU.

He has case, optical drive, monitor etc

all for under £500 :( lol

The system will be used for very little atm because he mostly uses his laptop. If its more powerful than his 3200 32bit laptop, then ace :D but it doesn't have to be. The huge storage is for video footage he's working on. (he does a lot of editting, and recently we released our latest star wars fanfilm as a group: TENCLO. check it out at TFN if you got a spare hour. It's very funny)

I was aiming for upgradability, so that in the future, when he decides to do a massive upgrade, which he's planning when he's won the lottery or something, he can use the kit he has, or give it to his son for some more hardcore gaming (he's 7 atm, and loves star wars computer games) either way, the system would need to be easy to upgrade, without ripping its heart out.

Sorry that post is so garbled ;) i'll sumarise:

check out our film: Star Wars III: TENCLO

His computer will be used for mass storage, possibly video editting, and possibly light gaming, if capable

His budget is £500

He needs:
1TB storage,
gigabit switch,
mobo with onboard gfx,
processor,
ram,
PSU

if mobo is micro atx, i can give him a case for it... otherwise a case too

cheers guys,
Matt
 
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