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Hmm...AM2 or Conroe...?

BoomAM said:
4x4 is a dual socket AM2 mobo that will be targeted/available to consumers. (us basically. :p)
2x sockets + 2x dual core cpu = 4x cores = AMD 4x4.
The initial 4x4 afaik will just be the current AM2 processors, so apart from multitasking, compared to the likes of Conroe, wont be amazing performers for games, but i'd imagine the K8L varient of the 4x4 will be awesome.
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Well if you get a 4x4 mobo (if they do ever come out) then you will be able to use whatever AM2 cpu is out.... be that the current 90nm K8 revs. or the soon to be released 65nm K8 revs. or the upcoming 65nm K8L dual/quad cores.

WIth bios updates it should in theory even support "AM3" processors.... as in those that will be compatible with AM3 motherboard (to support DDR3) or also fit in AM2 mobo's and support DDR2.
 
I doubt that AM2 & AM3 are interchangable tbh. Otherwise there would be no point in having AM3.
Although if you've read something i havnt?
 
BoomAM said:
I doubt that AM2 & AM3 are interchangable tbh. Otherwise there would be no point in having AM3.
Although if you've read something i havnt?
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Its been reported that AMD3 is backwards compatible with AMD2 boards, but that AMD2 CPU's are not forwards compatible with AMD3 boards. They are not interchangeable (if this is true),

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3169

AMD has released details of its next-generation desktop CPU interface, Socket AM3, to its OEM partners. In a mildly surprising move, AMD has revealed that AM2 will accept AM2 or AM3 CPU packages. Additionally, recent roadmaps have confirmed that AM3, AMD's upcoming desktop CPU socket, will not be backwards compatible with AM2-package CPUs. Roadmaps and memos have also confirmed that this AM3 package will be for AMD's "K8L" architecture, and not for the upcoming 65nm AM2 Brisbane CPUs scheduled for launch this December.

The most recent AMD roadmap is also very clear to state AM3 "supports either DDR2 SDRAM or DDR3 SDRAM, but not on the same motherboard." This is great news for upgraders, as there is a very clear upgrade path: CPU, motherboard, and then memory. This also infers that AM3 CPUs will have both DDR2 and DDR3 support on the integrated memory controller. DDR3, like DDR2, has 240-pin, but the two formats are not pin-compatible.

As we also mentioned earlier, Greyhound will be the first desktop processor to support HyperTransport 3.0. Part of the specification for HT-3 is backwards compatibility with older revisions of HyperTransport, and the forward compatibility of the AM2 socket confirms that. However, it’s important to mention that even though AM3 CPUs will work in the AM2 socket, HT-3 allows for 5.2 Giga-transfers per second, while current AM2 motherboards top out at 2.0 Giga-transfers per second. Even though the additional headroom is likely not completely necessary, quad-core CPUs will certainly benefit from the additional bandwidth to additional CPUs or co-processors.

There is no word yet on the number of pins the new socket will require, but since AM2 sockets are forward compatible with AM3 CPUs, we can at least deduct that AM3 will have fewer than 940 pins. Furthermore, since Socket AM2 is forwards compatible with AM3 CPUs, it is also safe to say that AM3 is not a land-grid array (LGA) socket. AMD will switch its Opteron platform to an LGA-1207 socket on August 1, 2006. AMD has not announced when Socket AM3 will be released, although since it would be the first HT-3 "ready" socket design, it seems likely that K8L and AM3 for the desktop will launch simultaneously.
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Gashman said:
im gonna recommend the waiting game, AMD have always offered the best deal for me personally, reliability, performance and good pricing. see what this AMD/ATI merger produces at beginning of next year, plus AMD releasing there 65nM processors into the market surely with higher overclocking abilities and perhaps some small improvements/revisions, ATI releasing there R600 at supposidly a similar timeframe. so im planning on waiting and see what they have instore for us next year :D and if intel is still performance king then intel it shall be for my upgrade
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You could be waiting longer than you think.... :) From what I've heard from the I.T Journo's AMD are really struggling to pull a rabbit out that will take back their crown. Intel have been in AMD's shadow for a long time epecially in Price/Performance and they've had a good while to plan there assault.

@Le_Petit_Lapin
The CPU pretty much takes care of itself in the form of E6600

For motherboard also consider Gigabyte DS3-DS6
 
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