Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
Sn0wm@n:
First you tell me speculating should be avoided, pointing at JF's qoute, fair enough.
Suddently, when Informal replies to me with more speculation it's alright with you, hypocrisy!

If you would have bothered reading my posts you'd know why speculating is all we can do.

AMD can tell us that you need new sockets on the server side, but they keep quiet about all client sockets in the slides, that's unusual.

It's not the end of the world if AM3+ boards doesn't work with Komodo, but I think it's people's right to be aware of it, before they go AM3+ in the first place.


It's possible, of course, but the idea of a socket that works with either PCIe on- or off-die sounds far fetched to me.
After all, they're replacing G34/C32, possibly for the same reason.
Well i know that the socket used for SNB will most likely work for IVB "It is suppose to be compatible" but Intel did not give any confirmation did it?

Also Haswell has sever limitations in compatibility with the SNB socket. There are three designs making the rounds for Haswell and i hope the old SNB socket is not used or it will be a bottleneck.

I think that AM3+ works with Komodo well at least partially maybe the APU part is not used at all or something like that. There has been a history of AMD with socket and semi compatibility "AM2-AM2+-AM3" and now "AM3-AM3+"

Given the news that old AM3 CPU's can work on AM3+ mobo's it might be also true that Komodo can work with AM3+ to maintain partial compatibility.

You all think that Intel had to change the socket from 1156 to 1155 because it was creating a problem due to the integrated IGP well its not all true. SNB could work of 1156 but Intel chose 1155 because of two reasons first was better performance and second was IVB compatibility. Then again 1156 was also chose because of similar reasons but it did not work out.

In the end "too many cooks spoil the tandoori chicken" Intel has several voices and can change its mind about several aspects and specifications its not logical to keep to what they think is right at a particular point of time or they will suffer performance cap's.