[CentOS] AMD's 2006Q2 Socket-"S1"/638, "M2"/940 and "F"/1207 -- WAS: How to select a motherboard

Thu Dec 15 23:31:13 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:
> Where did you get the Sempron-64's ?
> I thought only HP/IBM/etc had access to those ....

Heck, you can't get anything but the Sempron 64 for
Socket-754 now.  Once Intel started selling the Celeron with
EM64T, AMD stopped crippling the Socket-754 Semprons.

Even better is that the two (2) I just got are the full Rev.
E units with SSE3 and everything.  Not bad for $75!

Maybe you're thinking of the Socket-939 Semprons?  I haven't
seen those other than that one, new HP Sempron S939 3200+. 
Remember, Socket-939 *AND* Socket-754 are Athlon 64 capable. 
It's only the old Socket-A/462 that is not.  ;->

Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org> wrote:
> socket 754 is phasing out...

Everything's being "phased out" next year, although I thought
the Socket-754 was still going to be used as a "value"
solution for remaining DDR Hammer x86-64 cores/stock(?). 
Others have stated that Socket-939 is going to be the new
Sempron, but I've seen info that Socket-754 is where the
value will stay.  So who knows?

BTW, as Peter Arremann posted over on the AMD64 list:  
https://www.redhat.com/archives/amd64-list/2005-December/msg00103.html

XbitLabs just posted AMD's 2006Q2 plans scheduled for April
6th, 2006:  
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20051214062233.html 


  Socket-754 1xDDR -> Socket-"S1"/638 1xDDR2**
  Socket-939 2xDDR -> Socket-"M2"/940 2xDDR2
  Socket-940 2xDDR -> Socket-"F"/1207 2xDDR2

**NOTE:  There were mentions of the Socket-S1/638 being
marketed as dual-DDR2, despite being only a single 240-trace
DDR2 channel.  I think it's still single DDR, but uses
dual-DDR interleaving over a single channel like
Socket-423/478 and Socket-A/462 were.

In any case, this is probably a discussion left for the Red
Hat AMD64 list instead of here.  Feel free to join ... (I did
back when must of the existing Alpha/AXP list migrated over
in 2003):  
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/amd64-list/index.html  



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