Its been a while since I blogged. So long in fact I've almost forgotten how to do it. So heres a post. If its not very good I'm sorry and I'll try to do better next time.
So which AMD Platform is the most future proof?
Socket 939
Socket 754
Socket A
Clearly Socket A is the least future proof. Whats the other name for socket A?
Same list of Sockets whats the best value mainboard and cpu combo?
Can I compare say a "AMD Sempron 3000+ Socket A $137.36" to a "AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 $234.95" I would think not as the Athlon 64 costs $100 more, but they do both say 3000+
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Socket A is the same as Socket 462. 939 is the most future proof currently as you can get dual core s939, as well as the fastest AMD 64s. Apparently s754 will be used just for sempron64 from now on... this post here: http://nelsoncolne.blogspot.com/2005/08/say-you-wanted-to-build-some-kind-of.html shows socket A as the cheapest... (but doesn't include s939)
All prices inc vat:
S-A Sempron 2400 + Mobo £69,
S-A AMD XP 3000 (£62 / Sempron 2800 (£60) + Socket A Mobo (£31)
S-754 AMD 64 3000 + Mobo £129,
S-939 Mobo (£45) + AMD 64 3000 S939 £96 total: £141
Best value for money is the Socket A / XP 3000 system for £93 - assuming there's not a big enough performance difference between the XP 3000 and AMD 64 3000 to justify the extra £30 / £41 for the other boards. Although if cost if the biggest concern then I would say the Duron 1800 + Socket A board is the cheapest / best value for money...
not the cheapest. was going to go top of the range socket A if socket a. And 512 meg of ram. Is to update the server. Real question is socket a for now or think longer term? But just chewing the fat really it might not happen at all :)
If I was to go back and re-purchase my super duper Pentium M system but get something else instead then I would definitely get a Socket 939/AMD64 for future proofing (dual core in future), but if I was just wanting a powerful second computer then I would either get socket A (cheap) or socket 939 - you can get sempron socket 939 and there's only a £10 difference between socket 939 and socket 754 so I don't see any point in getting s754 - it seems just as dead as socket A (Almost)
your prices for sempron 3000 + mobo seem much better than our prices for sempron chips...
someone stuck with a socket 754 board:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=51642
Man it's confusing, I would say that the Sempron64 754 3000 (2.0/512k) £62, or the Athlon XP SA 3000 (2166mhz/512k) £62 are the best value for money (ignoring future proofing), with the SA chip best value with motherboard due to cheaper motherboards...
Sempron SA 3000 (2.0/512k)
Athlon XP SA 3000 (2166mhz/512k) £62
Sempron64 S754 3000 (1.8/128k) £58 (2.0/512k) £62 (two versions but same rating!?!)
AMD64 S754 3000 (2.0/512k) £92
AMD64 S939 3000 (1.8/512k) £97
(couldn't find sempron s939)
more discussion here all about it:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=46289
yeah i think phil's right, by the time you want to upgrade again, you may as well buy a new motherboard/cpu/ram because everything is much cheaper again, for example in 6 months an AMD64 3000 will probably be the same price as the XP3000 is now (or less), and the motherboards will be cheaper as well...
although if you have 15 machines and you have a policy whereby, when you upgrade one, the next one in line gets upgraded as well... then that could make things more awkward, say you buy AMD64 cpu/mobo/ram now, then in 6 months you upgrade the CPU, then you have a spare AMD64 CPU but no other PC that can take it... so you may as well upgrade CPU/Motherboard in 6 months time, rather than just the CPU anyway.
If it was me, I'd either go for the XP3000(at 2166mhz) as it's got the highest clock speed, and best price :) or perhaps the Sempron64 for £62...
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