AMD AM2+ compatibility with AM3 for how long?

[Kumagoro]

For Ocing I will get a mobo where you can save the settings and I will create a number of profiles
at certain freqs.

My thoughts were on getting an ATX motherboard for between £70-80 if it were intel.

Hmmm I havent been trying to keep up on whats good AMD motherboard wise either so it looks like
a bit of reading. Any suggestions of a few boards between the £50 to £100 mark?

[arthurleung]

We seem to be approaching a bit of an odd junction atm in future upgrades

As CAT said the new intel 32nm cpu's are going to be new sockets, not just that but the low end/cost ones will be a separate socket from the high end ones so new motherboard will be needed.
This is going to serverly limit upgrade potential.

When with amd the early new cpu's will be cross compatible, how low it will be until the next amd socket cpu comes out . . . we'll have to wait and see.

However nether would out me off getting a socket 775 or amd2+ motherboard and a low end cpu with an eye for future upgrade.
The simple reason is that the current dual core cpu's are plenty powerfull for the majority of computer use atm and if you do start to struggle you know that you can upgrade to a range of quad core cpu's because they are out now.

Even from your given example if you had a 965 chipset motherboard while you couldn't use the 45nm you can still use a q6600
The other factor to consider is overclocking, as near enough every c2d and c2q can get .5ghz Without issue or difficulity and more with some work that gives them another area to extend there life.

I'm using a Xeon X3350 (Q9450) on P5B Deluxe (P965).
Old chipsets are fine, they are capable of using the new CPUs in the sense of hardware. Unfortunately the motherboard makers doesn't always want to produce working BIOS for the motherboards. (I waited 5 months for new BIOS to work with my CPU).

Especially when AMD/Intel occasionally provide different CPU stepping to motherboard manufacturers and retailers.

[McPhee]

eBuyer now have an AM3 catagory in their AMD motherboard catagory! It's empty, but it may well be an indication of how close these are to being released (i.e. it may not even be as much as a couple of weeks if they're already prepping their system).

[Sputnik]

eBuyer now have an AM3 catagory in their AMD motherboard catagory! It's empty, but it may well be an indication of how close these are to being released (i.e. it may not even be as much as a couple of weeks if they're already prepping their system).

I wonder if it will be new AM3 boards or just AM2+ boards that are AM3 ready? I've noticed on the manufacturer sites they are saying AM3 ready on the AM2+ boards.