Who is upgrading their 939 to AM2?

[taqies]

I might buy a sempy for HTPC, from what I've heard, sempy AM2 TDP is about 35W. Am I right??

[TooNice]

When it is proven to be faster than Conroe.

... which is likely to mean never at the moment

[GFiSH]

I might do, I haven't decided yet. Only just upgraded my PC anyway. I'll have a look to see how good it is at Christmas.

[Salazaar]

It'd be interesting to see how the AM2 daughter board does on the Asrocks. If it's not too expensive and there's a good value dual core upgrade from my 146 available, I'd consider it.

[Oobie-]

I'm a little torn over what to do at the moment. I've been asked to upgrade two socket A systems to 939's or similar but I'm not sure if i should just wait another month to get AM2 systems. From what I hear (here and elsewhere) are that the differences will be minor but the AM2 systems would give an upgrade path as I doubt the 939 X2 chips will be in retail channels much after June.

Oh one other bit about the AM2 systems which I don't believe has been mentioned, its been suggested that the only performance increase will occur when the new DDR2 800 is released in June. I'm unsure if this will make much difference as tests with DDR1 533 on the last A64 memory controllers made little difference over the performance.

Nick

I too have a similar predicament! how I see it is that if you wait for the AM2 systems you will be able to have faster RAM (DDR2 800 as you said) which will last longer, it makes your system a hell of a lot more "future proof" compared to DDR 400 which you have now. OC'ing would of course increase the speed.

Am I right in saying that the slight downside to DDR2 is the CAS timings?

I want a new system in June...but I don't wan to buy it and go "oh I should have waited a few months cause I now realise that DDR2 is "where its at""

Anyone agree?

[Cobalt]

It'd be interesting to see how the AM2 daughter board does on the Asrocks. If it's not too expensive and there's a good value dual core upgrade from my 146 available, I'd consider it.

I have an Asrock but I wouldn't be able to get a decent sized cooler on that thing as it includes the RAM slots as well. It would certainly be interesting though.

[ExceededGoku]

I think my next computer build will have a server processor (as in server socket aswell) K8L or equivalent

[Stoo]

I think the only thing I might do is to jump up from an A64 3200 to something like a dual core opty 175..

Then I can nab a cheap 939 board and re-use the 3200 in my test rig, then upgrade my parents pc to the xp2500 currently in my test rig..

[vicar]

I am sticking to the 939's i'm still trying to build, so no switching for now no matter how good AM2 is.

I think you need like 6-12months from release to see how it pans out re problems, stability, performance etc.

[e36Adz]

I'm fine with my 939 thanks...

[DR]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5692

[kalniel]

We know David

But.. how fair is it to compare something you can buy tommorow (or so) to something you don't know when you can buy? (ok, maybe you know when, but we don't )

[Clunk]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5692

interesting stuff, i just wonder if intel will do their usual ridiculous overpricing now that they finally seem to have a competitive product again?

[sawyen]

interesting stuff, i just wonder if intel will do their usual ridiculous overpricing now that they finally seem to have a competitive product again?

I doubt it, unless they're happy getting the Northwood treatment again.. But the premium doesnt come from the chip, its the motherboard.. £150 for a motherboard is just plain silly..

[DavidM]

Kaniel - that's my personal thoughts as well...

[-ChEM-]

ah conroe has to have something wrong with it... it will get suffocated by the fsb system above a point and not be worth OCing and end up squarish with the new AM2s £ for £ which will then have dropped in price

maybe