Socket 754 to outlive Socket 939!!!

[pastymuncher]

Don't know if this has been posted before but i found this little snippet over at Dailytech. Read this!! .

It would seem that 754 will last a whole year longer than 939. I always said there is no point in upgrading to 939 when it will be itself replaced this year.

 

[m3csl2004]

only problem is theres no dual core on 754

 

[Dreadi]

or dual channel

 

[pastymuncher]

Thats not really a problem at the moment though, unless you do lots of editing etc. If you are just gaming there are hardly any games that support dual core so the extra year will not make much difference.

If you read the discussion further down that page it is true what they say and that AM2 may well become the budget socket after a year. That will be when 754 finally goes and if AM3 does come out then it will be like 754/939 all over again and the early adopters will be losing out on extra features again.

They have already shown that AM2 with DDR2 is not much of a performance increase over 939 and there are a load of Semprons coming out for AM2 so i wonder if they will launch AM3 a year later with support for DDR3?

As for dual channel memory that's not as much a performance gain as people make out. 2-5% at most 7%. My rig certainly does'nt suffer from the lack of it.

 

[m3csl2004]

with dual core you can run things in windows and play a game at the same time - and offers a nice performance boost in windows

and, as you say yourself, multi threaded games next year, the whole point your making is that 754 will last until early 2007

 

[Dunky]

I think the main reason that 754 has a later EOL is because all A64 laptops use Socket 754 chips. Apart from Semprons, the only A64 754 chips you can find are laptop chips (which is pretty much what happened to AXP). It's probably a wise move, 754 has the laptop market atm and AM2 is a direct replacement for S939. I'm not sure if I believe the AM3 bit however. It's known that the electronic pin out for DDR2 is compatibile with DDR3, for AMD it would be a case of updating the memory controller on CPU to handle DDR3 (not sure of the technical details but it seems to be the idea bouncing around the DDR2/DDR3 debate).

A lot of people state the lack of extra performance because of DDR2. DDR3 latencies are still insane (in relation to DDR2 and the A64 controller) so I think it will be a while yet before we see DDR3 come into play.

 

[m3csl2004]

I think the main reason that 754 has a later EOL is because all A64 laptops use Socket 754 chips. Apart from Semprons, the only A64 754 chips you can find are laptop chips (which is pretty much what happened to AXP). It's probably a wise move, 754 has the laptop market atm and AM2 is a direct replacement for S939. I'm not sure if I believe the AM3 bit however. It's known that the electronic pin out for DDR2 is compatibile with DDR3, for AMD it would be a case of updating the memory controller on CPU to handle DDR3 (not sure of the technical details but it seems to be the idea bouncing around the DDR2/DDR3 debate).

A lot of people state the lack of extra performance because of DDR2. DDR3 latencies are still insane (in relation to DDR2 and the A64 controller) so I think it will be a while yet before we see DDR3 come into play.

this man speaks the truth, what i woould have said if i were going to further my point