Quote Originally Posted by XRL8 View Post
FMx designation seems to suggest there will be few types of it.
And it makes sense, as trinity has different needs than komodo.
No, few types would be suggested by a different designation like FMx and FMy ;-)

I think it will be the same:
a) AMD has still less volume then Intel, a special enthusiast plattform like intel's 1366 does not make sense for them. Intel's 1366 had around 2-3% volume of the whole market. AMD has something between 20-30%, now calculate 2-3% for that numbers. That's not much.

b) Triple channel only helps in certain special cases. Anybody remebers significant performance differences between socket 1366 and 1156 ?

c) FMx will probably be sth like FM1+ and just get a DDR3-2133 and PCIe3 Update. Maybe also a bit more TDP, ~125W. That is ~+15% RAM bandwidth and +100% PCIe performance, no need for triple channel or lots of PCIe lanes.

Conclusion:
Yes, the die hard XS enthusiast wants Quad Channel and 100 PCIe lanes, but the far most of the people will buy price/performance. For that purpose, Komodo@FMx will provide a solide base.