Good point.

The more different "consumer" opterons (939/754) are released the
better the "real" opteron looks.

Really AMD is only following the market leader Intel. Intel and AMD
have had enough of folks running desktop processors for workstations
and/or servers. So therefore the best thing to do is engineer an
artifical difference. No more xp's running as mp's. AMD has finally
caught up with the p4/xeon duo. AMD has the amd64/opteron duo.

Whatever sounds confusing with all the models but still a lot better
than trying to decide which drug discount card to buy. Now that is a
real mess. ;-). Also a real ripoff.

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"Anthony" == Anthony Fremont writes:

Anthony "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
Anthony t.cable.rogers.com...
AMD introduced 4 new Athlon 64 and FX models. However each one
seems
Anthony to be
designed for three different types of sockets. Athlon 64 3500+ and
Anthony 3800+ are
designed for the Socket 939, while Athlon 64 3700+ is designed for
Anthony Socket
754. Meanwhile are now two FX-53 models, the older one designed
for
Anthony Socket
940, while the newer one is designed for Socket 939. There's a
table
Anthony in this
article to help you keep it all clear in your mind:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1605309,00.asp

Anthony This is silly, how many socket types does one line of
Anthony processors require? Will there be a socket 941 next week?

Anthony Quote: The FX-53 and 3500+, 3700+ and 3800+ include the
Anthony Sunnyvale, Calif., company's Enhanced Virus Protection
Anthony technology, which will be enabled with Microsoft Corp.'s
Anthony Windows XP Service Pack 2 release later this year and is
Anthony designed to add another layer of protection to desktops and
Anthony notebooks. /Qoute

Anthony This is also absurd. CPU's should not be engineered to solve
Anthony MS design deficiencies.