If this is true it would be great:
http://www.3dnews.ru/news/gigabyte_p...mi_socket_am2/
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ver=#anchor_os
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If this is true it would be great:
http://www.3dnews.ru/news/gigabyte_p...mi_socket_am2/
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ver=#anchor_os
Hardly a surprise, really - I assume that all 700-series chipsets will be able to support with appropriate BIOS updates. Since it's just going to be an AM3 CPU it'll be pin-compatible with AM2, so I don't see any reason for vendors not to issue BIOS updates to support it on AM2 boards.
What interests me is the Phenom II X4 900T series - apparently cut down from the 6core parts, does this mean there'll be some new potentially-unlockable parts available? ;)
Another impressive thing there is it's only 125w TDP
The motherboards being able to cope with the power draw and wether or not AMD pull the ddr2 memory controller will be the only real factors which would hold back am2+ support.
Considering that many people were thinking that the new Phenom II processors were going to be DDR3 only this is indeed good news if it is true!
I hope the rumoured Turbo Boost like functionality for the newer Phenom II processors will work with AM2+ motherboards though.
Mmm nice...
If my main rig was an AMD I'd be seriously tempted by this... for no discernible reason :p
If only it was skt 939... :p
Careful gigabyte did this before and then it was only on certain revisions. To be fair though they did exchange my board for the better one for just the price of postage.
Wasn't 6 cores @ 45nm done by Intel anyway with the Xeon (Dunnington - I may be wrong) ?
A positive note for me personally is after getting an AM3 platform up and running I was looking at upgrading from the seemingly locked Sempron so this is good news for me even if it just pushes the old parts down in price !
Nope. Dunnington used the L3 cache for inter core comms. The FSB was just for talking to the memory and the rest of the system.
Still a rubbish bodge though when Nehalem-EX was on its way and still didn't outperform the Quad core opterons where it mattered.
The 6 Core opterons should see a nice healthy performance boost in the server space, but they'll almost certainly lose to Nehalem-EX where it matters. Even with their 12 cores vs Nehalem-EX's 8 cores.