First Athlon64 Socket 939 review

Matt Simis · 01-06-2004 09:21AM #1

Afaik, this is the first: http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000304

Its much faster than the P4, however its amusing to see the "midrange", single channel, Socket 754 A64 3400+ beat the P4 3.4 EE too (in nearly all gaming benchmarks and some others)!

Matt

neokenzo · 01-06-2004 09:39AM

Those reviews have been out the past couple of days actually. Here are some more reviews.

PC Perspective

X-bit Labs

The Tech Report

AnandTech

[H]ard|OCP

Firing Squad

Tom's Hardware

TBreak

Matt Simis · 01-06-2004 09:54AM

Umm, I guess I wasnt checking the web yesterday evening.. Aces are better anyhow!

Matt

BKtje · 01-06-2004 04:46PM

I hope Intel manage to get competitive again as AMD are just charging what they want atm as nothing seems to be able tot ouch em.

Overclocking was - partly due to time constraints - a short but rather disappointing adventure. We were not able to overclock beyond 5%, limiting ourselves to a 1.7V core voltage. I guess we will have to wait a little longer to reach 2.6 GHz and more.

Strange that as on harcodp and anandtech they managed to get the 3200+ to 2.5ghz on air (c'hammer). Think this was with 1.8v tho. Still thats about 24% while these guys only managed 5%?

Matt Simis · 01-06-2004 05:56PM

Originally posted by B-K-DzR
I hope Intel manage to get competitive again as AMD are just charging what they want atm as nothing seems to be able tot ouch em.

Strange that as on harcodp and anandtech they managed to get the 3200+ to 2.5ghz on air (c'hammer). Think this was with 1.8v tho. Still thats about 24% while these guys only managed 5%?

I dont think you can trust any of these "mainstream" enthusiast sites for overclocking info, they spend far too much time pretending they are real "press" than getting their hands dirty on the engineering side of things, like ye olde times.

Matt

BKtje · 01-06-2004 07:19PM

well ill tell ya how i get on if we can wait a month or 2

CombatCow · 02-06-2004 09:43PM

Goddam, i think i will have to invest in one of those 3800+ and a PCIE X800.Does ne1 know when there will be a s939 nForce3 mobo with pci express out ??

CombatCow

Azza · 02-06-2004 10:17PM

Anyone know a method pf producing infinite money so I can get in a few months an x800xt pcie card a btx size socket 939 with a fx 57 etc etc

I want I want I want
Now Now Now
ME ME ME

tuxy · 02-06-2004 10:24PM

Originally posted by Combatcow
Goddam, i think i will have to invest in one of those 3800+ and a PCIE X800.Does ne1 know when there will be a s939 nForce3 mobo with pci express out ??

it was my understanding that the new x800 just about make use of the bandwidth from agp x8
i havnt read up on PCIE could u just give me a quick run down on how it will make a big differnce?

SouperComputer · 02-06-2004 11:13PM

Originally posted by Azza
Anyone know a method pf producing infinite money so I can get in a few months an x800xt pcie card a btx size socket 939 with a fx 57 etc etc

I want I want I want
Now Now Now
ME ME ME

its all about the drugs man

bizmark · 03-06-2004 12:22AM

Originally posted by Azza
Anyone know a method pf producing infinite money so I can get in a few months an x800xt pcie card a btx size socket 939 with a fx 57 etc etc

I want I want I want
Now Now Now
ME ME ME

Press the ` key on your keyboard to bring down the console and type in "freemoney"..........works in some games why not real life sure tis just one huge interative game

I want a 939 mb amd64 3200+ 1 gig of ram and a 9800pro.

neokenzo · 03-06-2004 12:28AM

Originally posted by bizmark
Press the ` key on your keyboard to bring down the console and type in "freemoney"..........works in some games why not real life sure tis just one huge interative game

I want a 939 mb amd64 3200+ 1 gig of ram and a 9800pro.

LOL

How many rigs you inted to have bizmark?

The A64 3200+ are not for the 939 mb's.

bizmark · 03-06-2004 12:34AM

It would be a upgrade of my main pc not a new pc

wouldnt cost more than 800 or so euro seeming i already have a good case/9800 pro and all the other crap like dvd drives etc

all id need is the motherboard ram new psu and a cpu :eek: .......Why arent the 3200's out for the 939 ? what cpus are they offering ?

neokenzo · 03-06-2004 12:42AM

Originally posted by bizmark
what cpus are they offering ?

The 939 is for A64 3500, A64 3800, A64 FX-53 and A64 FX-55 at the moment AFAIK.

OfflerCrocGod · 03-06-2004 02:20AM

The end of this month should see the first Socket 939 MB and PCI - Express cards. The main difference is the extra voltage that can be supplied to cards (Gfx cards may not need extra power) and the increase in bandwidth. Mayhap the X800 will only fill AGP 8X - but what about the next generation of Gfx cards? You afto think about the future mate - the future is faster, bigger, better:cool:. BTX may be a bit slow on the uptake. I can't wait to make myself a new rig

DROOOLLLL.

First Athlon64 Socket 939 review

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