Originally posted by Kalway
S939 will be the desktop standard. 940 will stay around for Opteron. 90nm will become available in Q3 sometime. The difference between FX and standard A64s will now be the size of cache. The standards will carry the 512kb while the FX will have the big 1mb. Both will be dual channel and support any type of DDR. They WILL NOT be pin compatible with s940 boards.

Hope that clears everything up.
Glad I sold my Socket 940 Athlon 64 FX system.

I will build a new system iwth the Athlon 64 FX (Socket 939) CPU in May 2004. I am sure it will release in the shops by then.

For now I am happy with the Prescott 3.2Ghz at 4.2Ghz.