AMD S939 Dead? My local PC shop owner has heard rumours that production of S939 has ceased (or will very shortly). Anyone heard anything? |
if would be a logical step for them to cut down on S939 as AM2 is their new platform and they need to ship in quantity; the Athlon XP has already gone the way of the dodo and the current S754/S939 is not far behind I think |
I know, I'm just shocked it would be so quick. Some MB makers have only just released new S939 boards! BTW Looking forward to the HR-05 test |
I'm turning that HR-05 test into a chipset roundup:) on-topic, I fired off an email to AMD, hope they get back to me. Theo from TheInquirer let me know that S754 will most likely outlive S939... |
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I suppose the S939 situation is logical in a way. If you invest hugely and then launch a new product that doesn't really provide a major performance improvement over your existing chips what can you do. Remove that old alternative and focus on the new product. (Like they appear to have done with the 1MB cache chips too) Cheers |
why didn't I google this:p [g]S754+to+outlive+S939[/g] "Socket 754 shipments outlast socket 939 but AMD prepares the transition over to socket AM2" http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1554 |
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Ah, you found the DT article :) I agree it's somewhat ironic... many sites (including myself) were recommending to grab socket939 systems instead of socket754 because of a better/longer upgrade path... guess that'll learn me. ;) |
I think that was never a wrong approach as the S754 is budget only, there are no high end CPUs for S754 available |
True, but some of those people were after the absolute cheapest option, and instead went with a 939 motherboard. Granted the price difference wasn't very much and they get better performance, but their window of opportunity to upgrade their CPUs will be over pretty shortly. Although since AMD will be slashing their prices first I guess you're right, they'll get their one last chance at a good price. ;) Dailytech posted this article here: Socket 939 & socket 754 EOL Dates |
I sometimes wonder how many people actually just upgrade their CPU alone? It seems most people, me included, go in with the idea of being ready for an upgrade but by the time they do, it's MB upgrade time too..... |
Quite a few people seem to upgrade CPUs... but just from what I see it seems to be when they're upgrading pretty low-end to whatever they reasonably can for their platform. I built my rig complete from scratch in '03 as it is now, albeit without the plethora of random HDDs I've accumulated... I'd very much prefer to only upgrade either my 2.80c P4 to dual core anything, as I'm the proverbial heavy multitasker it was designed for and HT/OCing only helps so much ;) Same with the Pentium M lappy into a Core Duo or Merom... but in both cases I can't due to motherboard limitations. The only thing I could possible re-use from this computer in a new Conroe rig would be the case! And even that I'd prefer to replace with a P180-B if I could. ;) Even some of the HDDs can't go over to a new rig since most are IDE, as I'll end up using the single IDE port most mainboards now come with for my cd/dvd burners. Although I've spotted a couple two IDE port 965P boards floating around... will have to see what comes on the RD600 chipset motherboards due out soon. That asynchronous memory controller and 1500FSB rating have my full attention... (Not to mention ~$150 price point) :mrt: |
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