Next A64 price slash?

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:04:08 -0700, John Sayor wrote:

It seems true that next price-cut is not very far. I am wondering
which AMD64 CPU to go. 754 or 939? the later would be the future,
but currently there aren't montherboard to select from.

The actual performance difference between 754 and 939 boards with like
cpu's is so small you won't notice the difference. The 754 3400+ actually
outperforms the 939 3500+ in some apps. This simply because AMD adds too
much of a model number increase for 939 cpu's with dual channel and larger
cache sizes. The core clock speed is still the most important factor for
most apps (excluding bandwidth benchmarks). And I would suspect that the
754 3700+ will outperform a 939 4000+ in the same manner since the only
difference in the 2 is the dual channel of the 939 cpu, And the 3700+ is
$250 less than the 4000+.:-)

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On 6 Oct 2004 11:04:08 -0700, (John Sayor) wrote:

It seems true that next price-cut is not very far. I am wondering
which AMD64 CPU to go. 754 or 939? the later would be the future,
but currently there aren't montherboard to select from.


I'm going to go with the Athlon 64 3400+ S754 2.4ghz 512k cache for
$238.

Add in the DFI NF3 LANPARTY UT nF3 250GB for $134 from newegg.com to
complete a killer system.

Steve