BF2S Forums socket 939 dead?

Yes, The 939 has been put into retirement.

It's dead... and CHEAP! Time for me to pick up a new processor.

most likley yes, but your comp should last for a little while yet if you've got socket 939...
thts the problem with pc's, you buy somethin and 2-3 months down the line its out of date and costs half what u payed for it. but thts the way it goes. dont worry to much, ive still got a socket A and its done me fine up till now but i may have to update very soon.

yea AM2 is barely diff than 939..... if you have a good 939 proc (4000+) no point in upgrading to an AM2 board...

I dunno what AMD was thinking with AM2...

I do belive AM2 was created so that AMD boards could run DDR2 RAM

MECtallica wrote:

yea but, lol why kill 939 then?

Thats what doesn't make sense! 939 was good...so they could have kept it even when they introduced AM2. Should have held onto it until atleast mid-late 2007.

This is good news for me.  I have several home systems and it's a bitch to keep them all decent performers.  It'll take a little while for prices to tank, but then I'll be able to upgrade the wife's pc and my 2 servers to cheap 'dead' 939 systems for a fraction of the cost.

I'm in a similar boat, but it'll be 6 months to a year before I upgrade my gaming rig, so it's useless for me to concern myself with CPU roadmaps for the time being.  AMD may be back on top before I upgrade.

I've got too many PCs at home, so I do trickle-down upgrades.  My wife's machine is a Athlon XP 2200, which will be upgraded to some 939 mobo with my present CPU, I'll get a new CPU on the cheap, and I'll use my wife's PC components to replace my oldest machine  It's an old Optiplex GX1 (pent II 450) Redhat linux box I use as an personal HTTP/mail server.  It works fine, but it's only tolerable because I never run anything in graphical mode(slow!).  I've got a socketA sempron box for my other server, and although it'll be around for a while, it'll be a cheap upgrade in a year or two when 939 stuff is next to worthless.  I bought that Sempron when Socket A was all but dead and I paid less than 200 bucks for a mobo, 512mb ram, and a Sempron 2200.  Not super fast, but good enough for a server and far better than the CeleronA based system it replaced.  The other few machines...hell....I dunno.  I'll just upgrade as deals present themselves.

Last edited by InnerMonkey (2006-08-12 18:51:54)

I'm not saying AM2 is better in any way, but the fact is that with AMD going that route, 939 production will dwindle to nothing.  No production==dead, but that doesn't mean it won't still be on store shelves for a while.  Hell, you can still find SocketA on store shelves, but few people would argue that it isn't a dead chipset.

We're still too near the price cuts and Conroe release to completely rule AMD out.  I've bought AMD for many years (since x486 was the shit), not because it was the fastest, but because the price vs. performance was more to my liking.  I run dedicated machines for several things (filesharing and network printing, WAN services, gaming, home security), as I've never liked having too many eggs in one basket.  Outside of the gaming world, I have no need for the bestest most expensive of processors for these tasks.  Even on the gaming side, I never ever buy latest and greatest.  I'm confident I'll be buying AMD, for at least some tasks, well into the future.

RDram never saw anything near the market penetration that DDR saw.  There will be lots of DDR for years to come, even if you have to buy used.  Last fall I had to buy EDO ram for a Diagnostic machine at work.  I was still able to find it new, and it was dirt cheap.  How's long has it been since that stuff was 'abandoned' by mobo chipsets?  Mid-to-late nineties?