Talk:Socket 940

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"the Athlon 64 FX processor, their premier gaming platform"

Is the Athlon 64 FX really considered a gaming platform? I thought it was more workstation 58.107.87.183 05:09, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

It is, yes. That is part of the major reason it has unlocked multipliers; to better facilitate overclocking. It was meant to go up against the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (and later Pentium Extreme Edition), also a gaming chip derived from a server chip. Opterons are the official workstation part for AMD. Aluvus 13:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

There were two different Athlon 64 FX processors released in Socket 940, the FX-51 and the FX-53. I should know, I have a Socket 940 FX-53. It's identical to the FX-51, but is clocked at 2.4GHz instead of 2.2GHz. --Jordan Hunn, 29 June 2007

[edit] Formatting of other socket names

Unless there is some particular reason that the names of other sockets are intermittently italicized or bolded, I'm going to remove the superfluous formatting. Aluvus 18:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Longevity?

"Thus, AMD's plans for Socket 940 stretch out several years into the future, and longevity for this platform is expected to be relatively long."

Heh! Socket 940 is pretty much dead, having first been kicked to the curb on price by Socket 939 boards and CPUs, and now superceded by Socket AM2 while Socket 939 is still hanging on. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 01:29, August 20, 2007 (UTC).