Winchester 939 Athlon 64 Chips

[Swimmer]

Finally for all of the 64bit people there will be an Athlon 64 chip with dual channel support. This chip is to be release in MAY of 04. Release Dates for Winchester chips The first model will be the 3500+(2.2ghz) followed by the 3800+(2.4ghz). The 939 is built on a brand new 90nm process so that should lead to some good overclocking! The planned final speed of this chip looks to be 4200+(2.8ghz) on the Athlon 64 side and for the fx series the FX-53 will be release around May also. What does this mean.... All of the people who currently have a 64bit system will be limited to 3700+(2.4ghz) on the Athlon side and for the FX series only to the FX-51. Since the current 64bit systems are based on the 752pin setup the motherboards are not upgradable for this new platform.

[d3bruts1d]

That article makes no mention of dual channel support for the AMD Athlon 64 xxxx+ processors.

 

As it's been stated numerous times before, it is highly doubtful that the AMD Athlon 64 xxxx+ processors will ever get dual channel support.

 

The First reason for this is the memory controller is inside the CPU.

The 2nd and main reason for this is that if AMD were to add dual channel support to the AMD Athlon 64 xxxx+ processor line, they would be killing the Athlon FX processor, and in turn they would lose money.

 

While it would be nice to see the AMD Athlon 64 xxxx+ with dual channel memory support, from a business standpoint it would be a stupid move for AMD.

[exeter_acres]

I knew there was a reason I hadn't gone 64bit yet (other than the fact I have spent all my money on my current rigs!)... It still sounds like AMD needs to get the marketing department into the same room with the engineers and provide a united front and settle on a standard and run with it........

[OweO2004]

Yeah a athlon 64 with dual channel support is a fx chip so they would be killing off the fx series! and eevn though they would claim to be as fast as a 4200 pentium 4 prescott they would still be slower in dvd editing and number crunching tasks because their clock speeds are over a ghz slower! Thats why the Northwood 3.4 Extreme edition smashes the FX in most benchmarks simply because no spftware supports the 64 bit instruction set on the athlon and the fact its only a 2.2 ghz chip!

[ShadowPaktu]

i thought the socket 939, all it means is that it is a athlon fx that DOESN'T need registered DDR Ram, but the FX 940 socket uses registered and 2 dual channels and thats why its limited to its overclocking potential.

[Shadowfactor]

so what does this all mean , Is the amd fx-53 ganna change over to socket 939 , or will thier be new chips out beter than the 64 3400+

[the11ama]

oweO2004, you should remember that clock speeds don't mean everything in a proc, especially when you're comparing two different platforms. Intel chips generally do better on multimedia tasking due to their deep pipeline; AMD generally does better with number-crunching due to a larger floating-point area and shorter pipeline.

And yes, socket 939 uses unregistered RAM, socket 940 (opteron) will continue to use registered RAM