Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
theres no point to. they made an am2+ for people who don't want to upgrade to ddr3 right away and just want a new cpu. and an am3 for ddr3 motherboards. whats the point of having the chip do both ddr2 and ddr3? then it costs more and they sell less chips. instead of someone buying an am3 chip with both memory controllers they are selling am2+ only ones and then if people want to upgrade to ddr3 then they will have to buy another chip. its a smart move if you ask me.
I completely agree with that, it would end up with a lot of transistors in standby mode, it would only be good for the ones that want to upgrade and would spare a few buck with upgrading the cpu also.
As company AMD they did the right move, as they will also sell more chipsets. For me I won't go for AM3 prior to the release of RD890, and that's at least a year from now.