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Leaked Pictures of Socket F

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-the-holland-i-grew-up-in dept.

Robbedoeske writes "Dutch language site Tweakers.net has the first pictures of AMD's Socket F, aka Socket 1207. This socket introduces support for DDR 2 memory and some say it will offer the ability for a integrated PCI Express controller on the cpu. Socket F is meant to be used in systems with more than one Opteron cpu."

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  1. Re:AMD Beating The Crap Out Of Intel? by pivo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How the hell can AMD be making such better chips and companies like Dell still selling Intel powered crap?

    That's easy: Marketing

  2. Back to the '80s by cronot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The first thing that came into my mind after reading the parent and its replies, is that this is coming closer to what microcomputers used to be back in the 80s, with the MSX, ZX-Spectrum, etc. Well, maybe the keyboard will remain detachable, as will any User Interactive peripheral, but everything else used to be much closer to the CPU back then.

  3. Re:AMD Beating The Crap Out Of Intel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Marketing money. Intel writes big checks to Dell as "co-operative marketing" funds. Also, Intel maintains its own sales force, including technical support for developers, on the corporate level. Guess how they decide which HW platform to recommend - who's laptops they show up with.

    Finally, Dell isn't much of an engineering company - they need to keep they're offerings simple - both for their supply chain and support. Helps to keep it easy and cheap to acquire and sell.

  4. Re:Yet another socket by Jendi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There really aren't that many to choose from -- your choices are basically defined by "server vs desktop" motherboard (eg socket 940 dual opteron/registered memory or socket 939 desktop) and "AMD vs Intel". After that, sure you'll want to stretch your current investment as far as possible, but at some point you have to bite the bullet and replace your motherboard and memory, how else are you going to keep getting loads more lovely memory bandwidth for your system?

    IMHO, I'm going to try and wait until AMD M2 motherboards are available for a vaguely sensible price, and move to DDR2 memory with a dualcore Athlon X2 ... hopefully some time next year -- I reckon that will be the next platform with as much longevity as Socket A gave me.