which 64 bit?

[sime27]

which number of pins should i go for when geting my new 64 bit boards and cpu?

[Martog]

If you want the best upgradibility for the future right now, go with a Socket 939 motherboard and nVidia nForce 4 chipset.

[Daviesbad04]

^ :yes: ^

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

socket 939, for future protection, nforce4 motherboard with SLI, thats for a new version of graphics card pci-e, if you can afford a new gfx card then you'll have to get a nforce3 or via motherboard, which supports AGP.

[Samoa]

939 most definately, but budget wise and nice performance, socket 754 and a DFI Nforce3 mobo (Y)

[Martog]

socket 939, for future protection, nforce4 motherboard with SLI, thats for a new version of graphics card pci-e, if you can afford a new gfx card then you'll have to get a nforce3 or via motherboard, which supports AGP.

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Not sure if I would exactly recomend the SLI boards or not. For dual video card usage, it is nice to have a second PCIe x16 slot to plop a graphics card in for more than 2 monitors. Right now, I am going to step away from SLI for a little while and get a single 6800GT from BFG, I'm getting tired that WoW isn't supported in the non-beta drivers.

[anthonycara]

for future cheap upgrades ull want a AMD64 s939 or 64FX s939 on a NForce4 Mobo.

[DannyGlass]

939 and unless you want to buy the expensive but mighty FX-55, id go for the Amd (Winchester) athlon 64 3500+

-DannyGlass

[Daninku]

I don;t know how many times I've suggested to take a look at my threads (my sig). There's plenty of ideas and info about SLI mobo, amd 64 (the fx44 cpu 939 socket). I'm freaky on my new PC. Ended up doing videos and slides of it :blush:

[at0mican]

Read this. Then make up your mind about AMD and it's 64 bit offering:

Performance

As far as performance is concerned, the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 660 can hold its own against its main competitor, the Athlon 64 4000+. The Intel chip performs particularly well if several tasks are running at the same time; under these circumstances, the Pentium 4 can outpace its AMD rival even if the latter is quicker at performing the tasks on their own. Thanks to HyperThreading (HT), the Pentium 4 distributes processing tasks across two virtual cores, resulting in more efficient utilisation of CPU resources. Such scenarios are found ever more frequently in the real world. For example, no-one should venture onto the Internet without firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware protection. These services are constantly active and need appropriate resources. Likewise, operations such as data encryption or hard disk defragmentation can load the processor, while the user compresses streaming video or audio data. Under such usage patterns, the advantage of HT is particularly apparent.

With the 6xx-series Pentium 4, Intel has ensured that important functionality such as protection from memory overflow, power management and 64-bit support on the desktop is no longer an AMD domain. And with HT support and SSE3 instructions, the new Intel processors offer additional benefits. One change will annoy Intel, however: on the installation CD for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, the most important operating system files are no longer in the 'i386' folder; Intel systems must load the installation files now from the 'AMD64' folder. Although that might hurt the industry leader, Intel may draw comfort from the fact that it has already sold more 64-bit chips than the inventor of the x86-64 architecture, AMD.

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/proces...189912-9,00.htm

[Martog]

Intel may draw comfort from the fact that it has already sold more 64-bit chips than the inventor of the x86-64 architecture, AMD.

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I would love to see figures on that, AMD64 has been out way longer than Intel's EMT64, and I wonder if they are including Itanium's as well, as they are just generallizing 64-bit almost there. Sure, Xeon's had it first which might contribute to some, but with the popularity of AMD, I still wouldn't mind seeing sales figures on only Intels EMT64 chips and AMD's K8 64-bit chips.