Any "noticeable" performance difference jumping from 939 hardware to AM2 hardware?

[joeeye]

Anybody go from 939 hardware over to AM2 hardware? I'd like to hear how it went for you and what hardware size you went from and to?

Or even if anybody would like to share what they know about the two?

Obviously if your 939 socket was a 1.9 and your AM2 is 2.6 as well as bigger and more memory there was a pretty good performance difference between the two.

I want to find out if there really is a better hardware structure in the AM2 that the 939 hardware structure don't have and misses so much?

So lets say there is a level playing field between the 939 & AM2 hardware to compare them to each other, no variables, please figure they are similar to each other, I want to know if there would be a noticeable performance increase making it justifiable in making the change because AM2 hardware brings more to the table than the same in 939 hardware.

I have an MSI 939 socket mobo with ATI chip set, with the AMD Winchester 2.4 CPU.

So I'm wondering if I was to bump up to the AM2 hardware there would be a performance difference that would really be that noticeable? I only see the AM2 has better memory specs.

Now what I use my pc for is not that demanding, I only web surf, watch news video clips, keep a video and photo album, some emailing, and burn a few discs, so I'm not gaming or need my desk top for any heavy down loading.

[Zefram]

Now what I use my pc for is not that demanding, I only web surf, watch news video clips, keep a video and photo album, some emailing, and burn a few discs, so I'm not gaming or need my desk top for any heavy down loading.

That statement already tells you that your current rig is powerful enough to cater your demand.........

Basically AM2 is just K8 with support for DDR2. And with dual-core X2 processor, DDR2 seems to provide enough bandwith to offset the high latency of DDR2.

As far as it goes, the performance difference from socket 939 isn't much. But remember that FX-60 is the highest you could get for socket 939 whereas the AM2 processor keeps on growing, with processor like quad-core FX-74 (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_9488%5E9494,00.html) working at 3Ghz would point to you that socket 939 is obsolete :p

Newer 65nm AMD K8 are also developed on AM2, there are no 65nm K8 for socket 939.....

But if you ask me, rather than upgrade to AM2, you might as well jumped to Core 2 Duo platform ;)

[MD_Willington]

Most tend to agree, if S939 is working well for you, then do not go with AM2.. doesn't overclock as well, no noticeable improvements...

[joeeye]

I agree with you MD_Willington, Its good to hear from others to make sure I wasn't missing something. The performance increase with the new AM2 socket hardware looks to be for people who like to o'clock.

Thanks Zefram for reminding me, I'm going to see if my mobo can go up to a FX-60, then I should be doing pretty good.

My two computers are doing great and they are up to speed, the thing is a enjoy building computers, its like a hobbie of mine rather than building a unit because I need one, so I guess I'm not going to bother with AM2 hardware yet seeing there is hardly any gain as of now, hopefully soon some pretty hot stuff will come out so I can jump aboard and have some fun building it.

Thank you.

[MD_Willington]

Honestly as a moderator at AMDs corporate forum, we noticed a trend, people with overclocked S939 stuck with them, a few tried OC AM2, then they went off to Intel... yet they stuck around on the corporate forum...

It was a real ordeal for a while...

[joeeye]

Honestly as a moderator at AMDs corporate forum, we noticed a trend, people with overclocked S939 stuck with them, a few tried OC AM2, then they went off to Intel... yet they stuck around on the corporate forum...

It was a real ordeal for a while...

Ya know whats weird? I was reading the feed back on AM2 hardware, so I found a good amount of people that said AM2 was perfect for OCing.

So then being I know nothing at all about OC but remember hearing that you need good memory and such where it looks like AM2 has delivered this much needed hardware for better OC, it looked to have make a lot of people happy from the reviews I was reading on the hardware that these people had purchased.

So I found it funny that you seen it the other way around with so many others, hummm??? :) :)

[MD_Willington]

Well you're more than welcome to come look around the AMD forum and see what everyone is running.