AMD stops production of Socket 939 Opterons

jmke · 10th December 2005, 17:04

THE LAUNCH of Opterons for Socket 939 was obviously just a smoke in the mirror. The complete stock of Opterons model number 14x and 16x (dual-core) dissapeared from e-tailers and retailers, with hundreds of overclockers buying even six or eight CPU's at the same time. Reason: Opteron, a 1MB L2 cache processor was priced lower than Athlon 64 models with 512KB of L2 cache. Also, those Opteron babies were bad-boys when it comes to cooling, working at 2.7-2.9 GHz with air-cooling - at zero problems, with a lower operating temperature than default-clocked Pentium D 840.
This has come to a close, as we have received a document that goes to show that company has decided to stop production of several different SKU's.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28250

10th December 2005, 17:22

awwwwwwwwwww

Doesn't include the 170 tough

jmke · 10th December 2005, 17:38

Opteron 170 = S939
S939 Opteron = finito

therefore

Opteron 170 = finito

10th December 2005, 17:46

I thought when they said 14x and 16x that 15x and 17x are exluded. Maybe I should read the full article

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

now I have to get a 4400+ *glares at price* being 2x the 3700+ price*

oh well, it's essentially 2 3700+ glued together =O

10th December 2005, 17:04	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	AMD stops production of Socket 939 Opterons THE LAUNCH of Opterons for Socket 939 was obviously just a smoke in the mirror. The complete stock of Opterons model number 14x and 16x (dual-core) dissapeared from e-tailers and retailers, with hundreds of overclockers buying even six or eight CPU's at the same time. Reason: Opteron, a 1MB L2 cache processor was priced lower than Athlon 64 models with 512KB of L2 cache. Also, those Opteron babies were bad-boys when it comes to cooling, working at 2.7-2.9 GHz with air-cooling - at zero problems, with a lower operating temperature than default-clocked Pentium D 840. This has come to a close, as we have received a document that goes to show that company has decided to stop production of several different SKU's. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28250 __________________

10th December 2005, 17:38	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Opteron 170 = S939 S939 Opteron = finito therefore Opteron 170 = finito __________________

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10th December 2005, 17:22	#2
Rutar Posts: n/a	awwwwwwwwwww Doesn't include the 170 tough

10th December 2005, 17:46	#4
Rutar Posts: n/a	I thought when they said 14x and 16x that 15x and 17x are exluded. Maybe I should read the full article NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! now I have to get a 4400+ glares at price being 2x the 3700+ price* oh well, it's essentially 2 3700+ glued together =O