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Can you plug a socket 754 cpu into a socket 940 mobo ?
A freinds upgrading and he wants to know this. He just wants a pc that will last a bit longer are their any 940 mobos out ? and when you plug or if you can plug a 754 cpu into it will it be dual channel or do only 940 cpus do dual channel any other draw backs benifits ? Thanks. |
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I meant the 939 in to the 940 mobo |
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No. They each have a different number and alignment of pins.
-- DaveW "We Live for the One we Die for the One" Mr wrote in message ... A freinds upgrading and he wants to know this. He just wants a pc that will last a bit longer are their any 940 mobos out ? and when you plug or if you can plug a 754 cpu into it will it be dual channel or do only 940 cpus do dual channel any other draw backs benifits ? Thanks. |
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:00:58 +1000, We Live for the One we Die for the
One Mr wrote: A freinds upgrading and he wants to know this. He just wants a pc that will last a bit longer are their any 940 mobos out ? and when you plug or if you can plug a 754 cpu into it will it be dual channel or do only 940 cpus do dual channel any other draw backs benifits ? Thanks. Read Anandtechs article : http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=2065&p=2 What's In A New Socket With the introduction of the 939 platform, we will see a convergence of platforms on the mainstream and high end desktop market for Athlon 64. Until now, the decision between the mainstream Athlon 64 and the FX version of the processor brought with it the problems of choosing between registered memory for a dual channel platform originally targeted at the workstation market and unbuffered memory for a single channel platform. The 939 pin platform brings us the ability to use unbuffered memory (which is slightly faster, cheaper, and more available than registered memory) in a dual channel configuration with either an Athlon 64 or an Athlon 64 FX processor. Not that any platform is (or ever will be?) future proof, but 939 will provide its adopters with a broader range of options for processors. We have already hit the upper limits of the 940 desktop platform in the FX-53 processor, and the 754 pin Athlon 64 will only reach one speed grade past the current high end 3400+ to the 3700+ (at least as far as current AMD plans indicate). Of course, midrange and high end platform convergence doesn't mean that the 940 pin and 754 pin platforms will go away. We will continue to see 940 pin processors and platforms in their original market (workstation/server) sporting AMD's Opteron processors. The 754 platform will become the new home of the Athlon XP and AMD's value line of processors. The new Athlon XP will be a trimmed down, 32bit only version of the Athlon 64. |
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