How far will AMD go with Socket 939?

[gate1975mlm]

How high do you think the Athlon 64 939 chip will goto before AMD goes to a new socket?

Maybe 5000+?

 

[ribbon13]

FX-57?

Dual-core 2.4GHz?
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html

 

[n7]

I just hope they make it to 3.0 GHz stock, but i have this feeling that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

When that happens, i'll be upgrading for sure

 

[xbdestroya]

AMD's bringing on a new socket in 2006 is the word - socket M2 as far as the desktop is concerned. It'll be moving back to a Socket A paradigm in the sense that new-gen budget, mainstream, and performance chips will all share the same socket.

Seems that Socket 939, and 754 to a certain extent, will be supported throughout next year as well. Within that time, I full well expect for AMD to break the 3 GHz barrier on the Hammer core.

 

[akugami]

Supposedly Socket M2 will be because of support for DDR2 along with whatever other upgrades they come up with.

 

[Mattd46612]

Is the Sempron basically replacing the XP from here on out and socket A going the way of the dodo very fast??

 

[xbdestroya]

Originally posted by: Mattd46612
Is the Sempron basically replacing the XP from here on out and socket A going the way of the dodo very fast??

Yeah you got it. Socket A will soon be a fond memory. I think Sempron 754 will make a great successor though. The performance and overclocking should be good - it'll just lack the 64-bit action of the Athlon. But then again, so did Athlon XP of course.

 

[HannibalTheCannibal]

There is no end to the computer upgrade pat his there? Jeez, me still on Nforce2.

 

[ribbon13]

I hope they put off DDR2 in favor of DDR3. Samsung already has prototype. Though I suppose with onboard controllers and a large L2 the latency of DDR2 wouldn't be that bad.

 

[Yanagi]

By 2006 i would hope they have DDR2 Mem with a latency of 2-5-5 @ 667 Mhz at least ... I can always dream cant I?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

good to hear about the new socket, that kinda makes me not buying a 939 and getting a 754 instead all the better. as im gonna have to buy new mobo, ram n cpu and graphics card anyway in 2006

nice to know i save a bit of cash

 

[Zebo]

Christmas they'll swicth to 1271, in the mean time I predict:

May:
FX-57 2.8Ghz
4200-2.6Ghz 1mb lvl2
3600-2.2Ghz 1mb Lvl2

August-
Dual cores @ 1.8, 2.0, 2.2

November-
FX-59 - 3.0 ghz
and a Dual core 2.4

 

[ribbon13]

dually 2.4 Italies for my Tyan are my goal.
and dually 1.8 italies for my abit WN-2S+
hehe