Quote Originally Posted by Lokinhow View Post
Can you tell me what Lisbon is different in comparsion to instabul? Differences that may be relevant in desktop.


Faster HyperTransport (from max. 5.2GT/s to 6.4GT/s). It is important for a platform with two or more CPUs but doesn't really matter on desktop (1 CPU). Anyway the HT can't run at higher freq than NB so if they would like to use this new capability then the NB must run at a >2.6GHz freq.

Cool Speed:

"The processor provides protection to processor integrity by reducing the power states when it reaches a temperature limit. This will help platform providers in reducing system fan speeds which eventually could result in better efficiency."

...and + C1E.

Quote Originally Posted by doompc View Post
Zosma must be Thuban with two disabled cores (probably for some ACC unlocking action)

The C-State thing is the hardware C-State switching present on C3 rev Phenoms. (faster than software based)

The Leo Platform is DDR3, so we won't see any 890GX/FX with DDR2 memory, but Thuban is probably DDR2 compatible.

Zambezi (Bulldozer) will come in AM3r2 form and probably all AM3 boards will support it with an updated BIOS, but it won't support DDR2 memory anymore.
I agree.