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Leaked Pictures of Socket F
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."
For those that can't read Dutch the Socket F looks like any normal chip.
I'm dutch so I could read the forumpost that started it all.
He actually said he counted all the pins, just to be sure to give enough information.
Funny stuff (being dutch rocks)
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Eerste post???
If true, it is interesting to see AMD moving to pin grid array-style cpu connection. Intel has used this for a little while now with thier socket 775 Pentium 4 chips. While there was concern over broken pins resulting in unusable motherboards, it now seems to be a relatively robust mechanism. I wonder what advantages AMD saw that lead them to this design. I also wonder if their Socket M, 940 pin solution for next years Athlons will use the same socket design.
The more I learn about Apple and Intel the more worried I get.
IBM is cranking out killer PPC chips.
AMD is cranking out killer x86 chips.
And Intel looks like they are ready to compete in some sort of Special Olympics for Computer Chips.
How the hell can AMD be making such better chips and companies like Dell still selling Intel powered crap?
Personally I never imagined integrating a PCI Express controller in a CPU. If this trend of intregation continues, what would be the next logical step?
Ahh nerd porn. While the rest of the world is looking at leaked photos of Janet Jackson or Paris Hilton, we're looking at photos of AMDs new processor.
The first photographs of AMD's Socket F have shown up on our Gathering of Tweakers forum. We wrote about AMD having put its new processor socket on its roadmap last May. The new socket is said to have 1207 connection points and is intended for multi-Opteron servers. To prevent the insertion of a DDR-supporting processor into a DDR2-socket and vice versa, a new socket design was necessary. The extra pins that came available are said to be used for an integrated PCI Express controller. What's remarkable is that there's a clear separation in the middle of the socket. This could indicate that each core of a dual-core Opteron has its own set of contacts and thus is treated as two separate processors.
The photographs furthermore show that Socket F, as Intel's Socket 775, will feature pins that make contact witht he processor. This is a so-called LGA socket: the CPU will no longer feature pins that have to be pushed into the socket. Socket F is also called Socket 1207, but carefull counting reveals that the socket only features 1206 pins. This socket supports DDR II 533-, 667- and 800MHz memory and this allows AMD to compete with Intel's FB-DIMM plans. The latter is scheduled to introduce its dual-core Dempsey platform in April, featuring the Greencreek chipset with support for FB-DIMM memory.
Yay. I'm still on the fence if all of these different sockets are a good thing or not. I've gone from Socket 7 to Super Socket 7 to Socket A over the course of the last several years. Now it seems that there are way too many different sockets to choose from, and who knows which will show the same kind of longevity that my past choices have. What's a guy to do?
I don't know about you, but my servers run on the power of cotton candy and happy thoughts. -Anonymous Coward
No one else is posting a translation. I'm not Dutch, but I'll take a crack at it (I spent a year in Belgium (Leuven) learning Dutch... and I like to practice it every now and then, so here's my chance). I have to get back to work, but I did do the first paragraph (Dutch speakers please feel free to correct me).
The first photos of AMD's Socket F have emerged on our Gathering of Tweakers
forum. In May we wrote that AMD had a new processor socket on its roadmap. The
new footprint should have 1207 pins and is intended for multi-Opteron servers.
To make possible a processor with support for DDR memory on a DDR2-footprint
and vice-versa a new socket was needed. The extra pins that are available are
according to reports for an integrated PCI-Express controller on the
processors. Noticeable in the photos is the clear separation in the middle of
the socket. This seems to indicate that each core of the dual-core Opteron has
its own group of pins, and so works as two processors.
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.
Op ons forum Gathering of Tweakers zijn de eerste foto's van AMD's Socket F opgedoken. In mei schreven we al dat AMD een nieuwe processorsocket op zijn roadmap gezet had. Het nieuwe voetstuk zou 1207 verbindingspunten tellen en bedoeld zijn voor multi-Opteron-servers.
Oh and....MULTIPASS!
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17617
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17652
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17681
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17709
More than you would care to know about LGA.
-Charlie
You just made me realize that reading the article description got me as excited as looking at nekked pics of Paris Hilton. The big difference is that AMD CPUs are much more interesting than her and are more talented. They are both about as flat and prickley though.
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Every single time I see DDR and compatibility, I think, wait, why do you need anything else with DDR?
-Rob
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God, I hope that was drool.
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