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I keep hearing that 939 is better because it can support dual core but what exactly makes socket 939 better than 754?

Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Finland

Socket 754 is on its way out. With Socket 939, you'll still have a few years of upgradeability.

And s939 CPUs and Mobos aren't that much more expensive nowadays anyway.

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 377 Location: Stuttgart, Germany

But isn't 939 older than 754? I think s939 has been around since the AMD Opteron which was more than two years ago...
But I don't really know how old s754 is...

Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Finland

No, 754 is slightly older.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:05 am

754 is as dead as Socket A

Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 61 Location: sunny AZ

that's a relief, we have a couple socket A systems running still....

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 377 Location: Stuttgart, Germany

what's the difference between s754 and socket a?
what kind of processors does s754 accept?

Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 169 Location: behind you!

S754 is a single channel socket for older athlon 64 processors. At that time you had 2 choices

#1. Go with an athlon 64 and get a S754 board and get stuck with single channel ram (at that time dual channel did little to boost speed on the athlon's anyway).

#2. Go with a Athlon FX and get a S940 motherboard (then you get dual channel ram and it's roughly 3% boost in speed).

Today Amd runs both processors on the same socket (s939) and with dual channel ram. Only 2 things make the FX better.

#1. More cache
#2. Unlocked multiplier

As for socket A it's the old socket that the athlon / Athlon XP / Durron used. It came out after slot A and before s754 .

If you need to know anything about the athlon just ask me (I'v been running them from day one).