The last AM2 X2 is here

[CAD4466HK]

I agree, what kind of moron would "not" go with a C2D E6700 at that price,
and still have enough left over to buy a nice PSU:wall: :crazy: :rant:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5883

[flclisgreat]

i am more interested in the x2 3600+

[DvBoard]

90nm still? WTF!

[Kab]

Na, no point. Thats just foolish. The 4200 to 4800 can be overclocked to 3.3Ghz pretty easily under air and its good enough for all the regular needs.

[uOpt]

Give it to me for 939 and we can talk.

[KorruptioN]

I'm still looking for a 939 X2 for a good price.

[Kab]

I'm still looking for a 939 X2 for a good price.Any hints on the range?

[flclisgreat]

Give it to me for 939 and we can talk.


you think there going to redesign it to use ddr instead of ddr2, just to let 939 user's upgrade? LOL, thats funny. they have declared 939 dead and are moving on. why don't you catch up with the times? :rolleyes:

[SuperSix]

I'm still looking for a 939 X2 for a good price.

If you really want one - bite the bullet now, they will only go up in price.

[madmat]

you think there going to redesign it to use ddr instead of ddr2, just to let 939 user's upgrade? LOL, thats funny. they have declared 939 dead and are moving on. why don't you catch up with the times? :rolleyes:

DDR2 memory controllers are backward compatible with DDR. The ONLY reason AMD switched sockets rather than introduce 939 DDR2 chips was that people would've ended up buying DDR2 939 boards and older DDR only 939 procs without DDR2 compatible memory controllers (remember, the memory controller is not on the chipset on A64's) and not have been able to get their PC's to operate or worse still hosed everything for their troubles.

The only reason for AMD to not offer AM2 chips on DDR would be that they'd be sabotaging their AM2 socket because the 939 owners wouldn't want to do anything other than upgrade procs. That and it's most likely that we'd end up seeing that the new chips perform better with cheaper DDR at lower latencies than with DDR2 at higher cost and latencies which again would shoot AMD in the foot...not to mention their chipset partners.

[uOpt]

I have about 26 GB of DDR, among other things 10 GB of ECC unreg and a second place world record set of TCCD. I have a number of flawless 939 boards and a number of 939 boards with known glitches that have specific use.

I'm not going to throw all this out and go AM2 to see virtually no improvement in performance but get unknown boards, much less boards with questionable support for ECC unreg.

Even the 3.0 GHz X2 is a joke compared to what Core2 has to offer. Why in the world would I go AM2? The reason why I use socket 939 is that I have solid, known-good components. If I want to trade to get performance at the cost of uncertainty, I go socket 775 or 771.