AMD FX Next (pilverdriver) FM2 socket?

[Mattuk69]

AMD are you taking the ****? I think so... So AMD users buy AM3+ motherboards for your Garbagedozer CPU's. And now your FX next CPU's need a FM2 motherboard

I was expecting AMD to do the smart thing and tweak the FX CPU's so they could atleast compete with the i5 2500k.
But no, they add 2 more cores and say its 10% faster...

Is this thing flopped before its even benchmarked?

 

[Mattuk69]

I thought piledriver was am3+, isnt llano FM2? or is that FM1....

Either way, tbh if you already had am3 and bought an am3+ board then it was a bit of a pointless upgrade and you probably didn't need to do it. Same for am3+ and FM2...

Well its all over the net FM2 and AM3+ so i dont know. Hopefully is it AM3+ because i only just got my 990FX board a month ago. I didn't just upgrade for Bulldozer but for Xfire and i was still on DDR2 ram