Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
thats the 1st thing i though of when i saw it, its exactly an am3 key so the board makers saying that they only need a bios update is now confirmed if they dont change the pin count when it goes retail.
Something that I have suspected for a while is that the engineering samples has the AM3 pins. And that's why they talk about compability. But AMD might add the extra pin in the retail CPUs. The extra pin might also be for future updates which won't fit in AM3 at all.