On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:58:09PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:48:51AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > I would suggest getting one of the new Socket 939 motherboards for > > upgradability reasons since they are replacing Socket 754. Currently it > > appears only the 3500+ and 3800+ use 939 so it may be out of your price > > range, the 3500+ is ~ $500 and 3800+ ~ $700. A low end 2800+ (S754) > > is only around $180 so it depends on your budget. :) > > While we're talking about sockets, what's the difference between an > Athlon64 FX and an Opteron 1xx? Isn't an FX just an Opteron with the sync > HT links disabled? Or do they actually have a smaller die that doesn't > include the extra HT links at all? And they are pin compat, right? You > could use an Opteron in an Athlon64FX mobo, and vice-versa, right? Older Athlon64 FX were S940 like Opteron, so they use the same motherboards, at least afaik. The new Athlon64 FX chips are going to be on S939 which is shared with regular Athlon64. S754 will be around for a while since Sempron (AthlonXP) is being migrated to it. Chris
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