Quote Originally Posted by jmm5351 View Post
I just wanted to say that I am sick of people arguing about how it is impossible for Bulldozer to be dual socket configurable. I am sure if AMD wanted to do this then they surely can. AMD just invented a whole new type of processor that is basically unheard of. Bulldozer pushes the very foundation as to what makes a processor a processor. If AMD can design, and manufacture such an intricate piece of hardware, well common sense tells me if they actually wanted to then AMD could make Zambezi dual socket compatible. No one can argue this either, unless you actually work for AMD and you helped design Bulldozer. BUTTTTT, c'mon people, if AMD can make such a crazy processor I think they could design a socket that would allow Zambezi be configured as a mult-CPU platform. Making the processor is the hard part, making the socket is the easy part.
i dont think amd ever said they cannot make dual socket zambesi. they have been saying all this time that dual socket desktoo segment is nearly dead and the more cores are released on single socket the more dead that segment is. it makes sense as you simply not find any games anywhere that will benefit from 16 cores. 8 cores is plenty for games and physics and its more important to have them clocked high than to stack up so many.
on the other hand if amd had a zambesi with quad channel ram on single socket g34 boards (aka athlon fx 51) that would be an interesting setup for hardcore gamers, and if they wanted more cores they could simply buy opterons. (amd could also limit the g34 zambesi to 1 socket so not to cannibilize the c32/g34 server segment.

thats just my way of seeing a super premium amd product.