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wow! you must have eyes like a hawk to spot that, so were talking one pin difference?hold on a second, what about the pin layout on the actual chip, does it have a pin for that hole? is there any shots of Bulldozer pin-out?
You're making the mistake of thinking 800 chipset = AM3. On AMD systems the chipset and CPU are almost totally decoupled, so any chipset will support any CPU. Asrock build AM3 boards using old Socket-939 era chipsets, and they work just fine. An AM3+ board using the 8xx chipset (or even 7xx for that matter) is no different really, there will probably be lots of those at the cheaper end of the market.
thing is mister JF, not to sound weird or anything, but why is no official date confirmed...? as a marketing person surely you agree that knowing when a product is going to be released to the public is an important thing, its AMDs big chance to take back some of the lost ground in the mainstream desktop market, but all they seem to be doing is 'avoiding' saying anything. Intel messed up big-time with their whole chipset business, they have basically shunned the enthusiasts with their 'no overclocking unless we say so...' routine, they are by all rights and respects and evil company! come on AMD win the hearts and minds of the people, there is still such thing as 'word of mouth...' to sell products.
