AMD Athlon 64 3400+

[knownalien]

I own this CPU and I was wondering about the future of memory, MOBOS, and periphials as they apply to MY socket: 754. The concern that I have, which most of us have had, is if I will be able to utilize my processor with these new technologies. I keep reading that the chip I have has the memory clock on the chip itself so it is capable of using much faster speeds (memory clock = cpu clock speed or 2.2 Ghz?). Could I one day really have a "FSB" of 2.2 Ghz??At the moment I use PC3200 and run at 400 Mhz FSB. There is faster ram ofcourse, but what is preventing me from buying even faster Ram like (for the AMD platform i the furture) something clocked at PC3500 (216 X 2) or 432 Mhz (presumably in sync)?
Ok, so then what about DDRII? It runs on lower voltage but has considerably faster advantages, so will it be just a matter of buying a MOBO later on that has these DDRII slots and popping my 754 slot CPU in it??
This Cpu has the memory clock on the CPU as opposed to being on the board itself, is this the future of CPUS?

How will PCI-Express or PCI-X affect my future outlook. Do you think many board makers will reconfigure their boards with slot 754 for the new PCI interfaces?

Will the new PCI interfaces do anything for ATA and SATA speeds in terms of the bottle necking that happens with the current PCI bus speeds?

thanks for tackling some of these crytal ball questions.

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[trooper11]

Well first of all, socket 754 is being phased out and it will not be given support for ddr2, pci express, or any of the toehr big improvements, besides maybe hypertransport 2.0 , but i doubt that. Amd is moving to socket 939, which will bring with it those extra features eventually. Socket 754 will be limited to a 3700+ or maybe a 4000+. Just wait until your normal upgrade cycle, maybe a year or two down the road, and then get into the new tech coming out. You wont be missing a whole lot to start with anyway, as these new advancments take time to mature.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

AMD won't give A64 DDR-II support soon, because A64 is fine with DDR400 and may take performance hit from high latency DDR-II

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[Prof133]

Can get a pretty good idea of where Socket 754 is going by <A HREF="http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1985" target="_new">this Anandtech article</A>. With Socket 754 processors being released in 2005, i'd be surprised if no one releases a Socket 754 motherboard with PCI Express.