CPU/Mobo AMD stops production of Socket 939 Opterons

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AMD stops production of Socket 939 Opterons :

No more enthusiast-frenzy products...
THE LAUNCH of Opterons for Socket 939 was obviously just a smoke in the mirror. The complete stock of Opterons model number 14x and 16x (dual-core) dissapeared from e-tailers and retailers, with hundreds of overclockers buying even six or eight CPU's at the same time. Reason: Opteron, a 1MB L2 cache processor was priced lower than Athlon 64 models with 512KB of L2 cache. Also, those Opteron babies were bad-boys when it comes to cooling, working at 2.7-2.9 GHz with air-cooling - at zero problems, with a lower operating temperature than default-clocked Pentium D 840.

This has come to a close, as we have received a document that goes to show that company has decided to stop production of several different SKU's.

Stopped items from AMD for Q4
SDA2500BXBOX
SDA3100BXBOX
ADA3000BPBOX
ADA3200BPBOX
ADA3500BPBOX
939pin Opterons

You can see that the company has stopped production of Sempr0n 2500+, 3100+ and Athlon 64 3000+, 3200+ and 3500+, all in Processor-In-Box (PIB) format. At the end of the list, all Opterons using Socket 939. Is this a preparation for early Socket M2 launch? µ
Source
 
Some more interesting stuff (thanks to Sunny for the link):

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00881/

Interestingly, I got a call from the sales manager for the opteron division at AMD this morning. Apparently, we showed up on thier sales report as one of the top sellers of opteron's this quarter.

Anyhow, he confirmed the story that retails are likely not shipping anymore, or at least will slow to a trickle. He also mentioned that OEMs will be all but impossible to find. He referred me to the recent cooperative agreement between supermicro and AMD, wherein supermicro is now making barebones server systems using the 939 opterons. Unless some of these chips leak to the grey market, it's entirely possible that the only way to source them in the future will be to buy them in a barebones server solution.

You know, that had to have been a pretty bizarre phone call. "Hi, I'm from AMD. Congratulations, you were one of our top sellers last quarter, but we won't let it happen again."
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I read dat AMD cleared it out that they are not going to stop till demand is there for 939pin Optys... makes sense, sell it all you can :) wat say??
 
AMD Denies Phase Out of Opteron Chips for Socket 939.
AMD Opteron Processors for Socket 939 to Live on

"Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday rumours spread by a web-site regarding cancellation of production of AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstation designed for desktop-oriented 939-pin infrastructure. The company said it would continue to ship the chips for uni-processor (UP) business machines for more than a year from the time speaking.

“Socket 939 AMD Opteron 100 Series processors are in production. AMD will continue to produce Opteron 100 Series processors with ECC unbuffered memory support in 2006, and we will adjust production volumes as needed to supply our server and workstation customers,†said Brett Jacobs, a spokesman for AMD."

Source and Read More: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20051213122715.html
 
Anish said:
Just a query, do the S939 Opty's require ECC memory ?
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No thats the beauty of S939 Opteron.

No need for Registered or ECC memory our normal Hynix / Transcend/Twinmos will also do.

Keep Ram apart take a look at its OC potential 2.7-2.8 even 3.0 Ghz easily on air and the 1MB L2 Cache what more do u want.

The Opteron 144/146 were a major hit with overclockers.

AMD if u are listening to me stop producing Athlons get more and more S939 Opterons. ;) :eek:hyeah: :D

Also send some S939 Opterons to us Indians also.

Long live the S939 Opterons
 
^^ You think? :p.

Anyways, good to hear.

Hows the performance of the 939 Opterons in gaming really?

Are the Opterons the same as the A64's? Just Tested further at lower operating Temps.??
 
Opterons have 1MB of L2 cache, so you could think of them as being equivalent to San Diego cores, except that they start from clock speeds of 1.8Ghz. Whereas in the A64 line-up, the San-diego models 3700+/4000+ start from 2.2Ghz. Performance will be equivalent to an equivalently clocked San-Diego model.

Not only that, most of them overclock to insane amounts.

1MB L2 cache + good overclock + decent pricing = Great performance for the buck !
 
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