What are the advantages of Socket 939 over Socket 754?

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 What are the advantages of Socket 939 over Socket 754?

Anandtech article ("AMD's Socket 939 Offers More With Much of the Same") - June 1st, 2004

I would stick with the intel. I know there is a lot of competition between AMD and Intel but Intel seems to always win the performance tests.

I bought the Asus board to match my CPU and I haven't been happier with my purchase (except those great shoes I got for a 1/4 of their price today).

And good choice on getting the most RAM possible. That is what will really make a difference in the end.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess I would stick with the intel. I know there is a lot of competition between AMD and Intel but Intel seems to always win the performance tests. I bought the Asus board to match my CPU and I haven't been happier with my purchase (except those great shoes I got for a 1/4 of their price today). And good choice on getting the most RAM possible. That is what will really make a difference in the end.

one word.... PRICE, =P

i'm definitely going with a socket 939 board since it seems to be here to stay for at least another year... maybe i'll have money to upgrade sometime in the future...

can anyone suggest some good RAM for AMD processors? I've read a bad review on Samsung RAM with AMD chips.... I'm looking at buying 1 GB kingston PC3200 ram...

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Last edited by mr. poopyhead on Jan-10-2005 at 05:52

yeh id just stay with kingston

its been around for years and is trusted by almost everyone

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess I know there is a lot of competition between AMD and Intel but Intel seems to always win the performance tests.

Source?
I have to disagree with you on that one. Although both companies have their strengths and weaknesses, they are quite on par in terms of application performance. In terms of games, The Athlon64 cannot be beat. The price on the other hand. I would not buy Intel because of the price. As well, the P4 is based on old architecture.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20...64_4000-16.html
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware....8ghz/page6.asp
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04...elcruise_1.html

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Originally posted by Slag Source? I have to disagree with you on that one. Although both companies have their strengths and weaknesses, they are quite on par in terms of application performance. In terms of games, The Athlon64 cannot be beat. The price on the other hand. I would not buy Intel because of the price. As well, the P4 is based on old architecture. http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20...64_4000-16.html http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware....8ghz/page6.asp http://www.infoworld.com/article/04...elcruise_1.html

funny, when i was buying my computer the athlon64 was just being unveiled the month after, i wasn't going to wait for it and at the time intel was winning the performance tests. maybe things have changed. thanks for the info.

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker My CPU is a NeuralNet processor. A learning computer

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ASUS generally makes good motherboards

I got an ASUS P4C800E-DLX for my computer, and ever since I used standby in windows, the computer would randomly not turn on. Sometimes I would wake up, turn on my computer, and find nothing happen, wouldn't even go to POST. The only way to boot it up was to unplug it from the wall and wait atleast 1 hour.. ahah. Anyways one day it just refused to turn on forever, so I tried new ram, new psu, and eventually a new mobo. I replaced it with the cheaper ASUS P4P800E-DLX (which I can't even tell any difference between).

So, I don't know if these problems are common in ASUS boards, but I guess the P4P is working out fine. I would probably recommend it if you're going with a P4.

thanks all for the replies...

i'm SET on buying the athlon 64 3000+ cpu, and the kingston ram... but i'm still really torn on the motherboard though...

thanks again all.

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