AM2 or 939? You decide

werty316 · February 27th, 2006, 09:30 PM

I will stick with S939 untill the M2 progresses more like what the venice did for S939. PLus the AM2 or M2 or whatever you call it will own with DDR2-800.

zachig · February 27th, 2006, 09:56 PM

I voted for Socket 939. I think it's better to stick with S939 since the AM2 will be a bit pricey when it'll be out. So I think it's better to wait for the prices to go down a bit. And beside that, like werty said, it'll support the DDR2, so it means buying new RAM as well. No way!!! I'm staying with my current DDR!!!

werty316 · February 28th, 2006, 02:19 AM

Speed doesn't matter when your latencies suck. Thats one good way to point out DDR2. Hopefully DDR2-800 will change that.

PUTALE · February 28th, 2006, 11:35 AM

so far the benchmark has shown that the performance gain is not yet there compare to ddr1 and ddr2's amd system setup. I think current socket 939 system should hold on a bit longer till maybe the end of the year when am2 matured and amd has new cpu for i.t

werty316 · February 28th, 2006, 08:28 PM

These early sample only support DDR2-667 so we can't see the full potential if any using DDR2-800. I am sure the AM2 will pregress more once it is released.

Concepts · February 28th, 2006, 08:39 PM

No matter what we buy now you can almost gaurantee that in 6 months it will be considered outdated and time to upgrade again, so personally id stick with socket 939 and ride it out till something more mainstream comes along rather than what they are pushing right now just my 2 cents.

outlawzsm · March 1st, 2006, 05:30 AM

i think upgrading to AM2 socket would be a 5 - 10% increase in performance from socket 939. but as soon as june 6th rolls around im upgrading. (right after computex) thats a wierd launch date though 6/6/06.

hopefully DDR2 prices will decline.

werty316 · March 1st, 2006, 06:58 AM

Releasing it on a 06/06/06 date could be bad luck bet lets hope not. S939 will be here for while as not everyone will jump the gun to get an AM2 system, especially since the performance is around the same as far as the samples are concerned but DDR2-800 support as a standard could change things.

PUTALE · March 1st, 2006, 09:40 AM

what I have notice is that the current gen and next gen's performance was not as big as it was. Now it seems like most new cpu comes with features rather than speed performance.

Mac Daddy · March 1st, 2006, 02:23 PM

I am all for the AM2 platform and looking forward to seeing how it performs.

( Shadowlady I am with ya on AMD64 ^ ^ )