Quote Originally Posted by RaV666 View Post
You Forgot to mention that all this is your PURE SPECULATION, as we dont have ANY info hardware/software/engineering wise as to why we need AM3+.
Zilch ;-).
We have AMD saying that they could do it, but the performance disadvantage wouldn't be to big since some features wouldn't work. That's the truth, yhe speculative part is my thought about these features being power saving features enabling the new turbo technology.

Quote Originally Posted by sutyi View Post
Bulldozer if I remember correctly uses HT3.1 which basically is a just a simple clock increase from 2.6 to 3.2GHz, meaning 5200MT/s versus 6400MT/s.

AM3 processors work with HT1.0 chipsets... so until the function of that extra pin gets revealed (if there is such) is just the same cattle manure that Intel did by going from LGA1156 > LGA1155.

I know companies need their profit, but in my eye that pins solely purpose just to make people buy a new motherboard with a new chipset if they want the shiny new architecture.
It probably has nothing to do with hyper transport. There is nothing that points in that direction. My guess is that it's limiting performance since the power saving features and thus the new turbo won't work as good. If so AM3 would lower the performance in pretty much all workloads.