AMD to stop taking orders for Socket 754 Athlon 64

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AMD to stop taking orders for Socket 754 Athlon 64
by Geoff Gasior - 01:42 pm, March 21, 2005

X86-secret is reporting (in French, bring a translator) that AMD is
putting its Socket 754 Athlon 64 processors out to pasture this summer.
Socket 754 Athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, and 3700+ processors
will apparently be available for order until June 15, so they'll be
around for a little while longer. AMD will continue to support Socket
754 with Sempron.
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8124
 
Ed> AMD to stop taking orders for Socket 754 Athlon 64 by Geoff
Ed> Gasior - 01:42 pm, March 21, 2005

Ed> X86-secret is reporting (in French, bring a translator) that AMD
Ed> is putting its Socket 754 Athlon 64 processors out to pasture
Ed> this summer. Socket 754 Athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, and
Ed> 3700+ processors will apparently be available for order until
Ed> June 15, so they'll be around for a little while longer. AMD will
Ed> continue to support Socket 754 with Sempron.
Ed> http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8124

Wow that is big news, but not unexpected. I guess all the Sempron's
will be 32bit?

Later
 
Alan Walpool said:
Wow that is big news, but not unexpected. I guess all the Sempron's
will be 32bit?

Later
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I was reading a few months ago that Intel will come out with 64 bit
Celerons, then AMD will have to come out with 64 bit Semprons.

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I was reading a few months ago that Intel will come out with 64 bit
Celerons, then AMD will have to come out with 64 bit Semprons.
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S754 Sempron's have 64 bit disabled (not removed). Should be a simple
BIOS (microcode) update to enable 64 bit for all Semprons shipped to
date.
 
AMD to stop taking orders for Socket 754 Athlon 64
by Geoff Gasior - 01:42 pm, March 21, 2005

X86-secret is reporting (in French, bring a translator) that AMD is
putting its Socket 754 Athlon 64 processors out to pasture this summer.
Socket 754 Athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, and 3700+ processors
will apparently be available for order until June 15, so they'll be
around for a little while longer. AMD will continue to support Socket
754 with Sempron.
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8124
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LOL. The final success of the 754. AMD discontinues it cuz it's too
good for the likes of you. Smart shoppers are saying no to the
overpriced 939 and snapping up the just as good 754 cpu's and
motherboards.

Oh, and I love those wildly high marketing speeds for extra slow
clocked 939 chips.

4000 ? LOL.
 
grumpy said:
LOL. The final success of the 754. AMD discontinues it cuz it's too
good for the likes of you. Smart shoppers are saying no to the
overpriced 939 and snapping up the just as good 754 cpu's and
motherboards.

Oh, and I love those wildly high marketing speeds for extra slow
clocked 939 chips.

4000 ? LOL.
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Dual core CPUs will follow for sockets 939 and 940.
 
M> So they will be named 8000+ ? or 4000X2?

Yea, the 754 is an excellent value for the bang for the buck. Sure 939
has some advantages, but I would suspect that if you really wanted
dual core you would better off with a motherboard designed for dual
core cpu's.

Later,

Alan
 
So they will be named 8000+ ? or 4000X2?
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I don't know what it will be called, but the 4000+ rating is a joke IMO.
Basically, they took a cpu rated at 3400+, added dual channel ram, and
another 512K of cache and called it a 4000+ And IMO hte 3700+ is overrated
also. All they did to it was add 512K more cache and raised the rating
from 3400+ to 3700+. Save yourself loads of cache and forget these top end
cpu's, they are way over rated, and the benchmark scores between them show
it.
 
Wes said:
I don't know what it will be called, but the 4000+ rating is a joke IMO.
Basically, they took a cpu rated at 3400+, added dual channel ram, and
another 512K of cache and called it a 4000+ And IMO hte 3700+ is overrated
also. All they did to it was add 512K more cache and raised the rating
from 3400+ to 3700+. Save yourself loads of cache and forget these top end
cpu's, they are way over rated, and the benchmark scores between them show
it.
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START RANT

The sad part of it is the consumer is getting happily ripped off,
thinking they have the best and the fastest, when in reality a 1600
duron is overkill for most of the tasks that Joe Consumer runs. But then
these people will buy a $45,000 SUV when all they need is a used Yugo.
Call it status, bragging rights, but it boils down to "a fool and his
money are soon parted".

END RANT

I have a [email protected] (thanks to you people) and am very satisfied
when I run sandra and see that it is only 5.5% slower than a XP3200+. My
sandra is too old to compare it to the A64's, but I don't care, it is
plenty fast for me.
 
I don't know what it will be called, but the 4000+ rating is a joke IMO.
Basically, they took a cpu rated at 3400+, added dual channel ram, and
another 512K of cache and called it a 4000+ And IMO hte 3700+ is overrated
also. All they did to it was add 512K more cache and raised the rating
from 3400+ to 3700+. Save yourself loads of cache and forget these top end
cpu's, they are way over rated, and the benchmark scores between them show
it.
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It's all Intel fault, think about it. ;p
Ed
 
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