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On Sunday 23 July 2006 15:45, Dieter Ries wrote: |
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> now i want to upgrade, so i am going to wait until next week, see how |
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> prices develop. but i am not sure if i should stay with my 939 board with |
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> nforce4 or buy also a new am2 board. |
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I would guess a good move would be (if you have the budget) to upgrade to a |
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am2 motherboard. DDR2 prices are not higher than DDR, and getting a PCI-E |
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slot would make it future safe regarding graphics. Ofcurse that means |
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investing in a new motherboard, new memory, a new graphics card (if you don't |
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are at PCI-E already) and a new CPU. |
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What CPU to pick... My recomendation would be whatever is most bang for the |
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bucks after AMD's pricecuts. |
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> are there support problems with am2 chipsets? which mb's are the best? how |
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> big is the difference between a amd64 with DDR Ram on 939 and amd64 with |
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> DDR2 on AM2? |
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I don´t have personal experience of any am2 chipsets, but my guess is that |
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they right now don't differ much from the "old" 939 chipset, just slightly |
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modyfied to support DDR2. |
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The difference between DDR and DDR2 are according to most test slight to none, |
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but as speeds increase and latency is lowered things might change. |
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Check out this (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2741&p=1) anandtech |
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article comparing DDR with DDR2 memory. A good read. |
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Best regards, |
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Andreas Karlsson |
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Sweden |
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