Socket 754

[john3]

you can dual boot? whats that? do u need 2 processors?

 

[Shumway]

There ARE socket 754 PCI-E boards, they're just not easy to come by...at the moment, I can't find any on Newegg, however.

did you have your eye's open while looking at newegg I found 2 page's right away for 754 pci-e


754 pci-e board's

 

[gaara]

Do you guys even use SSE3 instruction sets for anything? Most people will answer no, and that is the only difference between older AMD64s and RevE cores apart from memory controller revisions and smaller fabrication size

And anyways, I'm pretty sure they ported the RevE die to socket 754 as I'm almost positive they've switched their fabs to 90nm production runs so they can slash production costs so I honestly don't think there's anything different between the two anymore except dual channel memory which is nothing and slightly higher LDT frequencies which is also nothing

 

[PP Mguire]

Dual Channel memory made all the world on my SocketA system. Huge boost im performance and thats why i chose 939 over 754.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

They ported the venice core and some other socket 939 cores to socket 754....

 

[Nitestick]

guys the main reason i'm suggesting a sempron is that i don't see the point in buying an expensive processor just to make use of the mobo

 

[Dante_Caligari]

So Socket 754 doesn't have suppors for dual-channel RAM? So if I do build this system I shouldn't bother buying two 256MB chips, just one 512, correct?

The motherboard that I have has PCI-E x16.

Dual booting: It's quite a headache if you ask me. I used LILO, but there are a multitude of ways that it can be done.

 

[Nitestick]

nope no dual channel on s754. AMD had trouble incorporating dual channel support into their first on-die memory controller generation but the bugs have been smoothed out in the perfection we know as socket 939.

 

[Dante_Caligari]

1 512MB Chip then?

So then where does AM2 come in? What is the problem they are fixing with that?

 

[Nitestick]

there is no "problem" its just natural progression and transition to a new socket. actually i suspect it was a forced transition by memory manufacturers but thats beside the point, ther are no major problems with s939 as a platform. the main reason for the transition to AM2 is to incorporate DDR2 support into the memory controller.