Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
Same could be said about S775, infact its physically the same socket over the whole time.
If we only go for physically different sockets, that would be 6 vs 8 (intel/amd), but that was not point that i wanted to adress.

Its more the pointed towards the people who always whine about intel/amd when they release a new socket how its sucks and how they force people to buy new stuff...
Quite the contrary. While you could call AM2(+/3) all the same socket as all boards designed for AM2 with a big enough Bios chip can run all newer cpus physically(provided the m/b vendor provides bios support). In contrast you can divide socket 775 to at least 2 sockets. The pre-conroe socket and the post-conroe socket. Also iirc early boards couldnt be upgraded with dualcores.