Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
AM2+ mobo that have split power planes will support x6. Your lineup actually is what is better in AMD than Intel.

AMD goes x1>x2>x3>x4>x6 "Maybe even x5 who know" AM3/AM2 split power planes
Intel goes x1>x2>x4>Noting "LGA775"
No, my 775 lineup was actually sarcasm. I don't believe in backward compability. Neither for AMD, nor in Intel. Even in spite of the fact that my lucky P5B-E motherboard already saw 3 different CPUs. But thats always lottery and many S754 and AM2 owners can say you that. Except that it is worth to replace motherboards sometimes not just for CPUs, but for new features.

AMD has more choice and as noted the Phenom II's perform very well. Most likely AMD will intro a new socket in 2011 with intro of bulldozer but most likely so will Intel with sandy bridge. So what about LGA775 well its dead. AM2+ with split power planes/AM3 gives you more future prospects.

Also AMD uses the same socket for the high end, low end and low end and intel uses three "1366,1156 and 775". Intel has no plans to intro six core mid end processors in 1156 so that means no future prospects except getting either a i9+1366 or waiting for sandy bridge. If this is based on Istanbul "which it most likely is" they can use DDR2
If we put aside all new features comming in the next months (such as SATA3and USB3) which can alone justify mboard replacement, I really don't see motivation to use 6-core with DDR2 which can turn into bottleneck for many cores CPUs. After all AMD CPUs has less advanced mem prefetch/disambiguous technologes then Intel's Core.

Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
yes perhaps try that with all the available vrm support lists....
or did you also forget that you have both ddr2 and ddr3 775 boards... so are you comparing boards or cpu's and combining which on what????

on some am2 and all am2+ boards you can still use all ddr2 sempron/athlon/phenom versions + the ddr2/ddr3 combo's now and perhaps the 6 core.

if this 6 core is based on the current istanbul then it can also have the same dual mem controller just like current deneb offerings, there is no info that it would only be ddr3, stop speculations!
Sorry it is not me who started speculations.