AMD 2005

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » January 10th, 2005, 11:48 am

"There is dreadful news for Socket 754 owners; AMD is going to end the production of Athlon 754’s with its 3500+ microprocessor. You can expect to see 754 chips off the roadmap by the end of this year. For those looking to upgrade to a Socket 939 chip, AMD is expecting to launch their FX57 chip sometime mid-2005. The support for higher clocked Socket 939 chips and FX chips is on a positive outlook and AMD may even launch a FX59 this year. AMD also has no plans to break the 4GHz barrier, but they will most hit the 3GHz this year."

More here.

The Athlon 64 FX-57 (Q2) will be clocked at 2.8GHz.
The Athlon 64 FX-59 will be clocked at 3.0GHz.
AMD will also release their dual core Athlon 64 FX this year on Socket 940.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » January 10th, 2005, 9:21 pm

why are they ending it?

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » January 10th, 2005, 10:02 pm

Because AMD can provide the same chips on Socket 939 for the same price.

Nolano · Post by **Nolano** » January 18th, 2005, 4:25 am

and same chip, +dual channel = worth an extra 200mhz worth of performance on a754. 2.2ghz 754~2.0ghz 939.
Dual channel is really helpful for AMD, as their integrated memory controller removes any northbridge bottleneck.

aliasneo · Post by **aliasneo** » January 26th, 2005, 8:36 pm

actually isnt the last cpu for s754 the 3700+, thats what ive been seeing round from reading and stuff...

aliasneo · Post by **aliasneo** » January 26th, 2005, 8:36 pm

actually isnt the last cpu for s754 the 3700+, thats what ive been seeing round from reading and stuff...

also for 754, the new line "Sempron" has taken over as a value processor like the durons, and celerons for intel were.... these semprons are so called crippled 64 bit athlons...

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » January 26th, 2005, 10:18 pm

The Athlon 64 3700 is the fastest Socket 754 CPU.
I think, however, that dual-core mobile Athlon 64s will start on Socket 754 giving Socket 754 users the ability to upgrade to the next computing era.

The Semprons either use the T-Bred core (Athlon XP, Socket A) or one of the Athlon 64 cores (Socket 754). The Athlon 64 core Semprons have 64-bit disabled. All Semprons have 256MB of level 2 cache. The Semprons will soon migrate to Socket 939.