AMD 64, Socket754, Socket 939?? Confused

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AMD 64, Socket754, Socket 939?? Confused

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I find Newegg has AMD Retail Cpu's in both sockets for the same price?
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1600MHz HT 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 E6 Processor - Retail $113.99

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3000BPBOX - Retail $113.99


The 939 one is 2000MHZ where as the 754 one is 1600MHZ, but same price?
Both have L1 Cache: 64KB+64KB and L2 Cache: 512KB

I find only a $5 difference when comparing the Venice 3200 same way.

Being we have moved away from raw MHZ as CPU speeds, is there any advantage to one over the other?
I mean does the 1600MHZ 754 have anything specail that makes it worth taking a 400MHZ hit as it appears I would? Or should I go for the 939 and 2000MHz, is it actually faster as it would seem?

Basicaly I would be moving up from a Barton 2500XP to the 64BIT systems. Only reason for the upgrade is I have 2 systems that won't boot, so I figure maybe instead of spending $50-$75 for a socket A system board for the XP2500 or XP1700 I might pop $150 or so for a 64bit CPU and System board. Fast look it seems the system board would cost about the same either way, so I just pay extra for the 64 bit CPU.

Also if I go 64bit system, will my currant ram and video card etc.. still work in it?
I have no reall need to upgrade other than getting a broke system working agian because I need it soon.
If I would have to buy new ram and video card I would just get another socket A for the XP2500 I geuss.

Sorry I haven't kept up with this stuff last couple years I geuss. I got busy with video projects and travel and such and just haven't been bulding anything or keeping track of changes.
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Post by wpublic »

socket 754's are going off the market. kind of like the old SDRAM modules, for some time they will actually be more expensive as supplies dwindle and people are still using mainboards that support them.

if your ram is DDR, you can still use it; just check the specs on the board carefully. AGP boards are still out there, but most newer boards only support PCI express.

an ideal board would be a hybrid that supports the older as well as the newer technologies(AGP + PCIe) and a NForce 4 chipset.
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there's a hybrid agp/pci-e board that blade has had good luck with and has gotten good reviews at anands - can't remember which one but i recall that it was listed as hybrid or something like that at newegg
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Post by canton_kid »

Thanks.

The newest stuff I have is the old stuff ;)

3 XP1700 and 1 XP2500 system and the stuff that goes with that. DDR ram PC2700 or abouts.

So for a good new Buget system I geuss 939 is the way to go then? IS that gonna be here awhile?
I been happy enough with the XP1700 systems, they do everything I want to do well enough. Only problem is I had 2 go down and it looks like main boards are about the same costs for those or 939, so I figure if a $100 CPU is my only extra cost I might as well upgrade to 64bit as to replace a 333FSb system board.
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