Re: FN-FORUM: RE: PC accessories & parts retailers?

date posted 1st May 2005 10:50

Further to this, AMD have announced last ship/order dates for socket 754.
This is to distributors so expect stock to runout shortly after the
last ship date, as AMD are making it more attractive to buy 939 at the
lower end than 754.

From the horses mouth:

Further to our previous communication, we would like to remind you
that the AMD Athlon(tm) 64 processor family will fully transition to
939-pin .

Please find below the last-time order and last delivery dates for AMD
Athlon 64 processors in Socket 754.

2800+, 3000+ and 3200+, last order is 15/6/05, last ship is 15/12/05.
3400+ and 3700+ have passed last orders and last ship is 25/9/05.

939 variants are 3000+, 3200+, 3500+, 3700+ (not in production yet),
3800+, 4000+ and FX-55

Blurb to encourage the faster adoption:

TAKE ADVANTANGE OF THE SOCKET 939 PROCESSOR FEATURES TODAY:

I) Performance: A higher system I/O bandwidth of 14.4GB/s compared to
9.6GB/s delivered by the AMD Athlon 64 processor in Socket 754.

II) Low Power: Ideal for use in smaller form factor enclosures,
digital home and entertainment solutions and commercial desktop PCs.

AMD Athlon 64 processors in Socket 939 offer a maximum thermal power
of only 89W reducing to a low 67W on the lower model number
processors.

Low-power processing at no additional cost.

III) AMD's Cool'n'Quiet(tm) Technology: Cool'n'Quiet technology is
supported as standard on Socket 939 mainboards, reducing processor
power, heat and system noise even further!

IV) PCI Express(tm) Infrastructure: Huge selection and availability of
Socket 939 PCI-Express mainboards: discrete graphics or integrated
graphics solutions, ATX and uATX.

V) Ready for dual-core processor: Socket 939 offers a single
architecture for both the single and dual-core AMD processors.

Andy.