What's The fastest AMD Socket 939 Dual Core Processor?

Originally Posted by keithwalton

939 X2's are as good as extinct these days especially the good ones (4400+ and 4800+ were canned a long time ago)
This is all due to the amd's cunning shoot oneself in both feet plan.

The first stage was remove all good cpus (1meg cache per core) and make them opteron only, the second stage was a rapid kill off the 939 platform, and forcing people who just wanted a little more cpu power to shell out for new ram and the am2 platform.
However this has backfired as instead of going from 939-> AM2 the bulk of the crowd are going to S775 and the core 2 duo lineup as the c2d costs similar, peforms better, has imediate upgrades avaliable in the form of the core 2 quad and so far the next gen intel chips are working on current boards
(i975x is what penryn has been showcased with)

if you look at the latest financial results amd are in deep trouble, there price war with intel isnt working as they are still loosing market share and revenue at the same time, operating losses are hughe and they will go under by the end of the year unless they get a drastic turn around (intel and nvidia are ganging up on them tho)

Didnt that test need a voltage regulator modification?

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Best performing skt 939 dual core would be a Opteron

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but let's face it, DDR2 is a vast improvement over DDR.

By using a dual channel board, and very mid-range (5300) speed RAM, 2 GB of it, I get a Vista score of 5.9 for memory which is about as good as it gets.

With DDR, you'd be looking at quite a bit less, especially since PC3200 is old.

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Agreed but pc3200 isnt the fastest DDR ram you can buy.

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Originally Posted by 2||Para

Agreed but pc3200 isnt the fastest DDR ram you can buy.

Even so, DDR2 is well better.

Well DDR3 is gonna be even better again save up buy a bearlake board but wait till dual ram capability is implemented . (the chipsets capable of running both but Asus in their wisdoms done one or other not both)

[marky]

So did anybody answer the question without saying "go INTEL"

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

FX60 iirc. I think there was a 4800 skt 939 also.

Jump ship man Intel prices have dropped loads the newer conroes 2140 and 2160 with low core speeds 1.6 1.8 are coming in under 70 quid with the 4400 running at 2 gig at 93 quid. You wont pick up a skt 939 cpu cheap as they are rare now and people want them

Whats this scots mist???? Go Intel is still the best advice anyway

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Originally Posted by 2||Para

Best performing skt 939 dual core would be a Opteron

which skt 939 opterons quicker than the fx60 then?

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My 165 @ 3.1ghz for starters admittedly it was lidless and under water but it was.Plus it is less than 1/2 the price of a FX60 which i my opinion makes it a more reasonable choice.

so an equally cooled and overclocked fx 60 would be quicker would you agree???

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Yup,but also would take him into the price bracket of a full C2D system would it not?

incidentally that cpu is still available and would be an option for overclocking if a new board isnt an option

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?s...5-6176BFE08D72

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Originally Posted by 2||Para

Yup,but also would take him into the price bracket of a full C2D system would it not?

im just being pedantic for the sake of marky answering the question in a pedantic way the quickest dual core skt 939 cpu is the fx60

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They are a awesome cpu for the money but no patch on a 6320 of similar value.My next step is a 6400 once this SD4000 finallyy gives up the ghost.