AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details

[COD2_fanatic]

I've heard otherwise. AM2 may have 939 pins, but if you drop a socket 939 in an AM2 socket, it won't run.

Um, actually from what i've heard the AM2 socket has 940 pins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2

 

[Disillusion]

Um, actually from what i've heard the AM2 socket has 940 pins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2

Well, they might be 940 pin, but I see no reason why AMD would want to keep on using this design on their next generation CPUs. The pin-less design is better because you will never have to worry about bending a pin.

Here's a good Wikipedia read on the new K8L architecture. It suggests that they might use Socket AM3. They say that AM3 will be the same as AM2, so I'm guessing it will be pin grid array instead of land grid array.

Looks like the Socket F (1207 pin) will be LGA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K8L

 

[Snake-Eyes]

Um, actually from what i've heard the AM2 socket has 940 pins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2

Minor mistake. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

They will be using socket AM3, but the AM3 sockets are BACKWARDS COMPATABLE with AM2. AM2 IS 940 pin, they are just laid out differently. And socket F is going to be LGA. You can see it in the do***entation papers that come with the AM2 processors of how the sockets are made. Last time I heard though the quad cores and FX processors will be released on the LGA socket F.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

Why only 512 KB of cahce per core = 4 MB of cache, Kensfield has 8 mb.

 

[KBlair]

Yeah, but AMD had the performance lead for a while, despite Intel's usually large caches.

Can't wait to see how it all plays out. (I felt like saying "In the end", but there will be no end to this fight. )

 

[b1gapl]

They will be using socket AM3, but the AM3 sockets are BACKWARDS COMPATABLE with AM2. AM2 IS 940 pin, they are just laid out differently. And socket F is going to be LGA. You can see it in the do***entation papers that come with the AM2 processors of how the sockets are made. Last time I heard though the quad cores and FX processors will be released on the LGA socket F.

Why can't we say do***entation?

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Because it has the word <um.

 

[Disillusion]

Why only 512 KB of cahce per core = 4 MB of cache, Kensfield has 8 mb.

512kb per core would = 2mb. This can't be right. That's hardly enough.