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Today is the day of Athlon64 FX-53 reviews, apparently. Let's round-up the reviews written by the usual suspects. I'm sure more than one of you are down with AMD's peppy Athlon64.

• Anandtech
• HardOCP
• Hot Hardware
• Tech-Report
• Lost Circuits
• Linux Hardware

That should be enough to hold you down for awhile. AMD, if you're listening, our readers like uniprocessor platforms too. Maybe you should hook us up with an Athlon64 or two. :-)

09/06/2002 01:15 AM: Anandtech's AMD Athlon MP 2200+ Server Roundup... by Jim
We touched on Intel Xeon servers earlier, it's quite fitting that Anandtech decided to run through some pre-built Athlon MP servers today as well. With corporate budgets being cut as a result of the c...

06/19/2002 03:16 PM: AMD Athlon MP 2100+ Today by Hooz
Here it is, in all of its Palomino cored glory (no TBred for us yet): SUNNYVALE, CA-JUNE 19, 2002-AMD today introduced the AMD Athlon(tm) MP processor 2100+, a high-performance multiprocessor designed...

02/05/2002 02:56 PM: RackSaver Builds a 264 CPU AMD Athlon MP Supercomputer by dadmin
RackSaver have helped the University of California, Santa Cruz build a monstrous Athlon MP cluster that runs Linux:The Supercomputer consists of 132 Linux based nodes configured with 264 AMD Athlon(TM...

11/07/2001 03:35 PM: The AMD Athlon XP and MP : Any Real Difference? by Hooz
I have been getting a ton of email from you guys asking me if the Athlon XPs do indeed run in a dual processor configuration. I have not tested this myself, but the people over at Game PC seem to hav...

10/15/2001 09:28 AM: AMD Athlon MP 1800+ Processor Review by dadmin
Amdmb.com have put up a review of the new 1800+ MP (1.53GHz) processors in a Tyan Tiger MP board. They've compared their performance to a pair of 1.2GHz MP processors and also to a single Athlon XP 18...

07/18/2001 10:09 PM: AMD Athlon MPs in Canada? by Jim
Here's an inquiry for you fine readers out there: Where oh where, can poor Canadian schmucks find Athlon MPs these days? Personally, I'm not in the market but I'm sure there are Canadian readers out t...

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2097 Joined: 2002-11-19

#27827 Posted on: 03/19/2004 03:28 AM probably the only thing that would put me off buying one of these bad boys is that the socket is going to be made redundent in a few months time. I think i will wait until the new socket is established before i move and get another AMD cpu rig. Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

Occupant Registered User Posts: 2421 Joined: 2002-03-04

#27828 Posted on: 03/19/2004 03:52 AM The Athlon FX uses the socket 940, like the Opteron. Not the Athlon 64 socket 745. (which is heading to the dust bin this fall)

XWRed1 Registered User Posts: 185 Joined: 2001-08-27

#27829 Posted on: 03/19/2004 04:48 AM Does anyone even care to benchmark these with 64-bit software anymore? Or does noone care because 3dmark and Comet Cursor have yet to be ported?

DracoDan Witty text Posts: 331 Joined: 2001-09-11

#27830 Posted on: 03/19/2004 05:21 AM Originally posted by Occupant The Athlon FX uses the socket 940, like the Opteron. Not the Athlon 64 socket 745. (which is heading to the dust bin this fall) He's refering to the transition from socket940 to socket939 for the AthlonFX series. Heatware Ebay feedback

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2097 Joined: 2002-11-19

#27831 Posted on: 03/19/2004 05:31 AM He's refering to the transition from socket940 to socket939 for the AthlonFX series. exactly! Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

Tanj FORK ME BABY! Posts: 395 Joined: 2000-02-05

#27832 Posted on: 03/19/2004 05:57 AM Originally posted by Jim_ AMD, if you're listening, our readers like uniprocessor platforms too. Maybe you should hook us up with an Athlon64 or two. :-) LIES!!!1 -Tanj! My F@H Stats My System Stats

LRSeriesIII Aspiring Rocket Scientist Posts: 1128 Joined: 2002-08-29

#27833 Posted on: 03/19/2004 06:54 AM Personally I think it is nice to see AMD finally starting to push their processors up above 2.2Ghz. ->Computers ->Folding for team 3074

Mr Bill two by two, hands of blue Posts: 2946 Joined: 2002-02-16

#27834 Posted on: 03/19/2004 08:31 PM Look how the different processor generations scale with clock speed over at Tech-Report. A very nice presentation of the 'Big Picture', Heh Heh. My SMP rig [URL="http://personal.palouse.net/billshan/ghost.htm#A_Merlin"]Merlin[/URL]

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#27835 Posted on: 03/20/2004 02:06 AM Originally posted by i_wolf exactly! But what prevents you from putting a Socket 939 CPU on a Socket 940 board? In other words, if you bought a system with an FX53 (940 pin) now, you'd be able to upgrade it to an FX55 (939 pin) in the future, no...? RMN ~~~

Occupant Registered User Posts: 2421 Joined: 2002-03-04

#27836 Posted on: 03/20/2004 06:52 AM Originally posted by rmn But what prevents you from putting a Socket 939 CPU on a Socket 940 board? In other words, if you bought a system with an FX53 (940 pin) now, you'd be able to upgrade it to an FX55 (939 pin) in the future, no...? RMN ~~~ Nothing. Just as long as its 1 cpu... 2cpu fx 53 wont work.

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#27837 Posted on: 03/20/2004 11:30 AM Originally posted by Occupant Nothing. Just as long as its 1 cpu... 2cpu fx 53 wont work. Yes, that much I think everyone here knows. But i_wolf posted: Originally posted by i_wolf the only thing that would put me off buying one of these bad boys is that the socket is going to be made redundent in a few months time. Which is what I don't get. Current (socket 940) Athlon FX motherboards should be perfectly compatible with future (socket 939) Athlon FX / 64s. RMN ~~~

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2097 Joined: 2002-11-19

#27838 Posted on: 03/22/2004 06:54 AM Yes thats true, however current Athon motherboards do not support PCI express. Future motherboards with PCI express support are unlikely to support socket 940 athlon FX's. While this may seem like a bit of an assumption on my part, Anand and other reviewer would appear to be of the same opinion. Which is what I don't get. Current (socket 940) Athlon FX motherboards should be perfectly compatible with future (socket 939) Athlon FX / 64s. That is a bit of an assumption IMO. The reason i say this is that we do not know that the pin layout of 939 chips will allow their use in socket 940 boards. It is altogether quite possible that a 939 chip will not even fit in a 940 board. Of course if im incorrect in this statement, by all means correct me and please point to a location which verifies that 939 chips will work in 940 boards. So far I haven't read anything validating this possibility. Regards i_wolf Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#27839 Posted on: 03/24/2004 01:19 AM Originally posted by i_wolf It is altogether quite possible that a 939 chip will not even fit in a 940 board. True. The Inquirer (who usually seem to be well informed of AMD's plans) have said "we presume the 939 chips will fit in 940 sockets, otherwise motherboard manufacturers will go bonkers", but they haven't made any definitive statements yet, so it's possible AMD makes the layouts completely incompatible. But you should still be able to buy Opterons 1xx and use them in the current (socket 940) boards. There are no plans to change the Opteron's socket, and IIRC, the FX chips are priced at exactly the same as the Opterons of the same clock speed. RMN ~~~

Occupant Registered User Posts: 2421 Joined: 2002-03-04

#27840 Posted on: 03/24/2004 06:08 AM I dont think PCI-E will be the killer upgrade for a while. I think it'll take a generation or 2 for the chipsets to be as fast as PCI/AGP chipsets now are.... So unless my computer has an untimely death, Iam not going outa my way to get PCI-E, until next summer at the earliest...

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