Socket A Pci-e?
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The_Other_One
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I beleive the oldest socket/chipset that also has a PCIe option is the 754...
Hairy_Lee
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i believe the was one once... it seems to have sunk without a trace though. the main reason behind this i believe is that the socket a architecture cant supply enough bandwidth for PCI express so there are no preformance gains for such a motherboard. You do occaionally find old technology mixed with new technology which is why its possible to find some SKT754 boards with PCI express
mrbagrat said:
Think your a little off in years there. Socket A Athlon did not come out till 1999, Socket A was going strong in 2000. Socket 754 did not come out till 2003, Socket 939 came out in 2004!
StrangleHold said:
The first Socket 754 models were just coming out in late 2004 with the introduction of the AMD64 line of cpus. In fact some vendors didn't carry the first 64bit Atholons until around that time. Back in 1999 and 2000 the AMD Thunderbirds were the OCer of the day.
PC eye said:The first Socket 754 models were just coming out in late 2004 with the introduction of the AMD64 line of cpus. In fact some vendors didn't carry the first 64bit Atholons until around that time. Back in 1999 and 2000 the AMD Thunderbirds were the OCer of the day.
The Athlon 64 (codenamed "ClawHammer", "Newcastle", "Winchester", "Venice", and "San Diego") represents AMD's entry into the consumer 64-bit microprocessor market, released on September 23, 2003. This processor implements the AMD64 architecture. It is AMD's first K8 eighth generation processor core for desktop and mobile computers
Today, on the 1st of June 2004, one thing happened that we had long been waiting for. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. released its new family of Athlon 64 processors, equipped with a dual-channel memory controller. This event is also accompanied with the transition of the Athlon 64 to the new processor socket, called Socket 939
StrangleHold said:
"AMD Announces Athlon 64 Brand Name; Demos 64-bit Windows, Linux, More
Momentum Building for First-Half-2003 "Hammer" Launch
November 19, 2002
Momentum Building for First-Half-2003 "Hammer" Launch
What would you call the 64-bit successor to the Athlon and Athlon XP processors -- particularly if you wanted to emphasize its support for a new generation of software unreachable by rival Intel's 32-bit Pentium 4? Today AMD chose the obvious answer, revealing that the desktop and notebook versions of its "Hammer" CPU will carry the brand name Athlon 64 when they ship in the late first or early second quarter of 2003.
The Athlon 64, formerly codenamed "ClawHammer," will join AMD's Opteron (nee "SledgeHammer") multiprocessor workstation and server variants in running existing 32-bit applications with no performance penalty, while delivering peak performance with more powerful, data-intensive 64-bit programs. According to AMD, the Hammer family's x86-64 architecture lets both PC buyers and application developers preserve their existing investments while offering a painless migration path to 64-bit computing.
At this week's Comdex Fall trade show, AMD is showing Opteron and Athlon 64 systems running 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows and Linux, with 32-bit Microsoft Office XP running seamlessly on the former, as well as 64-bit versions of programs for both business (IBM's enterprise database DB2) and pleasure (Epic Games' Unreal Tournament 2003). Both Red Hat and Covalent Technologies have committed to delivering 64-bit Opteron versions of the popular Apache Web server.
Other features of both Athlon 64 and Opteron processors include a high-speed, scalable HyperTransport system bus and integrated memory controller. AMD says Opteron systems will ship in the first half of 2003" http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/news/article.php/1503731