AMD's AM 3 socket will support DDR3

AMD's AM 3 socket will support DDR3

Daniel Fleshbourne on 19 October 2006 - 09:23 · 8 comments & 3649 views

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AMD'S AM2 socket will "evolve" to AM2+ in Q3 2007. The AM2+ will include support for the latest greatest Hypertransport 3, scoring with 4.0 to 4.4 GT/s where the exact speed depends on the north bridge frequency.
The AM2+ CPUs are backward compatible with the existing AM2 CPUs and even the new AM2+ CPUs scheduled for 2007 announcement should work in the previous boards, but not at full speed. They will have to depend on HT 2 not on HT 3 and even today's CPUs will work on future AM2+ platforms

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(2 replies) #1 Xavien on 19 Oct 2006 - 09:34

If this is true (since its Inq), that would be awesome, it seems as Intel's upgrade path involves buying a new chipset for every chip refresh they do, AMD is going to completely opposite way, allowing as many CPU's work on as many boards and chipsets as possible.

Forward Thinking at its best.

#1.1 Beastage on 19 Oct 2006 - 14:14

Quote - Xavien said @ #1

oh wth?! AMD released socket 753, 940, 939, AM2 and now AM2+ and AM3 in a period of 3 years....

#1.2 Xavien on 20 Oct 2006 - 08:24

thats certainly better then needing a new chipset for virtually every new line of Intel CPU's , besides 939 was the 'main' socket for AMD.

Also if you actually READ the article you'll find that AM2, AM2+ and AM3 are all compatitible with each other, allowing you a nice cheap and eay upgrade path.

753, 940 and 939 were more of a hiccup for AMD, but 939 was established as the main socket, while the others died pretty quickly. Before that AMD has the old Socket A and we know how long that lasted.

Intel, on the other hand, has constantly changed the chipsets of the motherboard but kept sockets, but often you'll find the older CPU's for the same socket, simply wont work on newer chipsets and newer CPU's wont work on older chipsets. That is the lack of foresight, why stick with the same socket if you need a new chipset in order to use a new CPU?

(1 reply) #2 Ledward on 19 Oct 2006 - 11:52

...Backwards compatible generally means that performance won't increase too much since... it's generally the same thing all over again.

Not what AMD needs at the moment. AMD needs to take the crown back from Intel, at any cost.

#2.1 Kushan on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:19

That's quite an ignorant statement. I can prove you wrong with two words alone: "Dual Core". Remember when AMD released those? They were backwards compatible with existing sockets and gave huge performance boosts.
Sure, this will never be quite so dramatic, but it will be a good performance boost none the less.

(1 reply) #3 fpsFugazi on 19 Oct 2006 - 11:57

Im almost scared to spend my money on building because the pace of computer tech is accelerating at such an amazing speed. I feel like I will build and then some new type of memory or gfx card or something like that I will wish I picked.

#3.1 Richardo on 19 Oct 2006 - 14:36

Then you'll never build a high end pc. It's always been like this.

#4 Croquant on 19 Oct 2006 - 14:31

I'll believe this one when I see it. Not before.

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