This is a little worrying: https://www.chipworks.com/about-chip...samsung-fabbed
I hope AMD can actually get some Zen based cpus built.On the other hand, for Apple to go through all the trouble of dual-sourcing a custom designed part and launching on day one with both parts, suggests major sourcing problems.
Amd has been playing with APUs right now, but it is time it flexes some muscle in a pure CPU chip. Specially now with programs being more and more tailored for multi-core usage.
In case anyone is interested, my Asus motherboard seemed to be failing (SATA ports are going wonky) so I bought one of these to see if the FX-8350 CPU was still OK. So far working fine, seems a nice motherboard with a decent BIOS, clams to be able to take 140W CPUs. VRM and chipsets are heatsinked in a very businesslike way rather than the Asus where the VRM heatsink seemed like a place to put branding stickers more than get rid of heat.
I paid £60.45 for mine, price has gone up 10% so perhaps they are already getting popular.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASRock-970M-.../dp/B00TOBQQTK
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