Any word on when the 939 pin AMD sockets will debut?

[Qenan]

I'm interested because I'm going to be buying a new machine sometime this Winter/Spring, and I'm wondering when AMD's next rev is coming out -- I think Intel has something coming up in February, but I don't think I really need it that soon. (Having limped through Christmas with my 1 GHz box, I figure I can probably await the next big MMORPG before needing to upgrade.)

[Case]

I'm interested because I'm going to be buying a new machine sometime this Winter/Spring, and I'm wondering when AMD's next rev is coming out -- I think Intel has something coming up in February, but I don't think I really need it that soon. (Having limped through Christmas with my 1 GHz box, I figure I can probably await the next big MMORPG before needing to upgrade.)

Not until mid-to-late spring, at least.

The current scuttlebutt is that the 939-pin variants won't arrive until AMD goes to 90nm process technology. Until then, we'll have socket 940 and socket 754.

Don't sell socket 754 short. Performance is still pretty damned good.

[Qenan]

Thanks. I'm not putting down the 754, but it doesn't like they will have much of a future wrt upgrades.

[Erik Andersson]

I'm not sure if it's even worth looking for a socket with a future wrt upgrades. Even if the socket itself might last for a year or more the other interfaces probably won't. Examples are the current change from parallel to serial ATA, the change from AGP/PCI to PCI-E (starting this summer?), the change from DDR to DDR2 (late this year?) and so on. I bought a Sis735 based motherboard almost two years ago, and it is still upgradeable wrt the socket, HDD-interface and AGP, but the memory is too slow. I believe that the 3700+ will be the end of the 754-based CPUs, so if you buy a 3000+ now you could at least upgrade it a little.

[Case]

Thanks. I'm not putting down the 754, but it doesn't like they will have much of a future wrt upgrades.

Read what Erik said.

Socket 754 will be around for awhile. At worst, it will become AMD's budget configuration.