Xylicon wrote:If you're gonna go 939 I suggest you do it NOW, AMD took the last socket 939 orders late last year (they are discontinued) If I was gonna get an AMD proc I'd go with either the AM2 or the socket 1207.
It's a replacement for my A64 3000 (OC'd @ 2.4ghz). I'm trying to make my set up last as long as possible since I don't want to buy DDR2 until I have no choice. I'm happy with current performance (hell, I could probably push it a few hundred more mhz if I really tried), but as you pointed out the time to buy a 939 chip is now since they are only going to get more expensive now that the supply is shrinking. I just got my tax refund so I figured the most efficient use of a bit of it would be to buy a decent upgrade before it's no longer economically justifiable (which happened to me with my poor AXP 1700, it was only $50 more expensive to buy an entirely new motherboard and CPU than to buy a better AXP!).
I actually finally just gave in and went with the Opteron 170 - it's dual cored so that was enough to justify it in my head finally. even if I can't get it faster than my current CPU in clockspeed it's still got the second core on it! (and more L2 cache).
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