The Ignition Project: WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST

WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST

Keith Gable — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:27:00 -0500

I’m looking for a $50 AMD Athlon 64 X2 for Socket 939… I keep getting outbid on eBay, so I’m asking you guys if you might possibly have the heart to let this thing go for $50… :)

"WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST" by Matt

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:22:29 -0500

AFAIK Vista does somewhat take advantage of multi core systems, though I could be drastically wrong on that. I actually wish I had the money for a multi core system (well actually a new system in general, lets face it this thing is old.) Would make compiling some things faster and running multiple Virtual machines easy (I can only run 1 VM on this system, on XP, Vista and Linux).

"WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST" by Keith Gable

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:51:09 -0500

There are lots of reasons to want an up-to-date single core processor… for one, if you just want a cheap processor to fit in the new platform board you have to buy. Cause nothing uses both cores yet anyway unless you’re in Linux and have a kernel scheduler that actually distributes the load across the processors, and even then, that only gets benefited by multi-threaded applications.

Never really had an AMD BSOD on me. My current machine is just being flaky and it has something to do with the network controller I think..

"WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST" by Matt

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:06:17 -0500

^.- Why would you want a single core processor this day and age?

See you had the opposite problem as me… Windows 95 on my first AMD CPU BSOD’d all the time, I later found out why (Something to do about the AMD’s being too fast) but I still don’t trust AMD for any computers within my household. I’ve never had a linux kernel panic on my P2 or a BSOD’s or kernel panics on my P4HT (Hey and this thing runs Vista better then it did XP and still no BSOD’s!) :/

"WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST" by Keith Gable

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:05:13 -0500

I was an Intel guy until I got fucked in the P3 era. “We can’t go over 1GHz, it’s just not possible!” and “The only way you can get fast RAM is with Rambus!” …. shortly followed by the Athlon 1GHz in the first example and DDR SD-RAM in the second example. And Intels still aren’t as cheaply available as AMDs. I can get a $30 AMD Athlon 64 - Intel doesn’t even offer an up-to-date single core processor (There is no “Core 2 Solo”).

That said, AMD needs to spend some money on upgrading their fabs and process technology to remain competitive. And I would definitely choose a 4-way Opteron workstation over a 4-way Xeon workstation (aka “Mac Pro”). For normal desktops, though…. I don’t know which I would choose.

"WTB [AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Socket 939)] PST" by Matt

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:57:59 -0500

If I had (or even liked amd) that CPU I’d sell it to ya for a buck. But alas I’m an Intel dude.