signmeuptoo wrote:
Ben Pope wrote:
If you buy a socket 939 CPU and motherboard today, you should be able
to whack in a dual core CPU at the end of the year.

I suspect that the 939 socket will live for a while, with options like
that.

And you believe this why? Any indicators that you can share by any
chance, or is it just a hunch? I went 939, though I don't have my CPU
yet, and I expect it to last a year maybe, but AMD has had a strong
habit of late changing pinouts like granma makes cookies and granpa
stinks up the room with cigars (At least my grandpa, who was a cool
dude, smoked stogies).

Dual Processors are going into socket 939 in under 6 months, that hardly
sounds like a socket thats gonna die soon.

When did Socket A come into existance? 5 years ago? And it's still going.

OK, so you've had socket 754 and 939 introduced. How long was 754
around before 939 came out? Not very long... there weren't that many
people who bought a 754 and were unable to do the research and find out
that it was gonna die pretty quick. So AMD made a mistake. However,
socket 754 will be around in the cheap market for some time too.

There's talk of a DDR2 CPU (new socket, over 1000 pins), but thats not
gonna be for a year or so.

Thats hardly that many sockets, look at what Intel are doing...

Ben
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