CPU/Mobo AMD Bulldozer Discussion Thread

I guess this is one more reason to wait a couple of months before upgrading. Any idea about when these mobos will be available in India? And what about Bulldozer CPUs?
 
^The CCR (Combo Cooler Retention Module) is something really worthy of a Appreciation making the HOTY AMD chill down now.

To begin with, ASRock started with the socket itself, showing that AM3+ sockets can be identified by "AM3b" written on the socket, and have wider pin-holes (0.51 mm vs. 0.45 mm of AM3). It is possible that future (retail?) versions of the CPU, if not the engineering samples doing rounds, could use packages with thicker pins that are incompatible with AM3. The thicker pins add durability, and are designed for a different set of electrical specifications.
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Socket Compatibility?
 
Socket Compatibility?
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Check the picture that Arun.P has posted of AM3+ Socket in this thread... the AM3+ Socket pin holes indeed looks wider as compared to AM3 Socket Pin Holes... Current AM3 processors would easily fit in AM3+ Socket as AM3+ socket has wider pin holes but If a manufacturer would release an AM3+ motherboard with thin pin holes then i think yes there would be compatibility issue with the upcoming bulldozer processors... But i hardly think that any motherboard manufacturing company would do this mistake as AMD must have told them that new Bulldozer processors would carry thick pins... :)
 
^ I dont think any manufacturer will come with thin Pins. Thick pins add durability, and are designed for a different set of electrical specifications keeping voltages within stable range providing more space for OCin.
 
Hades. said:
Check the picture that Arun.P has posted of AM3+ Socket in this thread... the AM3+ Socket pin holes indeed looks wider as compared to AM3 Socket Pin Holes... Current AM3 processors would easily fit in AM3+ Socket as AM3+ socket has wider pin holes but If a manufacturer would release an AM3+ motherboard with thin pin holes then i think yes there would be compatibility issue with the upcoming bulldozer processors... But i hardly think that any motherboard manufacturing company would do this mistake as AMD must have told them that new Bulldozer processors would carry thick pins... :)
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Did i say that any motherboard manufacturing companies would launch AM3+ motherboard with thin pin holes?
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I dont think any manufacturer will come with thin Pins.

Thick pins add durability, and are designed for a different set of electrical specifications keeping voltages within stable range providing more space for OCin.

Hope you got my point:cheers:
 
Hades said:
Check the picture that Arun.P has posted of AM3+ Socket in this thread... the AM3+ Socket pin holes indeed looks wider as compared to AM3 Socket Pin Holes... Current AM3 processors would easily fit in AM3+ Socket as AM3+ socket has wider pin holes but If a manufacturer would release an AM3+ motherboard with thin pin holes then i think yes there would be compatibility issue with the upcoming bulldozer processors... But i hardly think that any motherboard manufacturing company would do this mistake as AMD must have told them that new Bulldozer processors would carry thick pins...
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I think you didn't read my post properly... :|

Lets Not Argue :peace:
 
AMD Motherboards Now Support NVIDIA SLI

Source: AMD Motherboards Now Support NVIDIA SLI - Softpedia

While this may come as a mild to serious shock to some people, the fact is that NVIDIA just posted a blog entry which reveals that a certain technology of its making is now available on AMD platforms.

It is no mystery that NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices have been trying to outdo one another ever since the latter bought ATI.

While not as full of lawsuits and the like, their relationship is quite similar to the rivalry between AMD and Intel.

Either way, each company has its own technologies that work only on their own products, this being part of their strategy to boost product appeal.

Then, there are things like CrossFireX and SLI, the multi-GPU technologies of each, which also work on Intel platforms, what with Intel CPUs and, thus, compatible motherboards dominating the market.

What some users have been yearning for, however, was support for SLI on motherboards powered by AMD chipsets.

Now, NVIDIA posted a blog post in which it announced that platforms using the 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets (in other words, Bulldozer mainboards with the AM3+ chipset ) will be ready to let users set up NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations.

This is probably a consequence of NVIDIA no longer making chipsets, at least as far as x86 processors go.

MSI, ASRock, Gigabyte, ASUS and other companies are expected to deliver motherboards with support for this new feature soon, although no specific date has been given.

“AMD’s stature as the preferred gaming CPU fell by the wayside and Intel CPUs have been the gamers’ choice,” wrote NVIDIA's Tom Petersen in the official blog post located here.

“For this reason, we’ve only licensed SLI for motherboards with Intel chipsets. However, we’ve been recently hearing chants of “SLI for AMD CPUs”, and figured that now is a great time to do it.”
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soumalidon said:
im really happy for the AMD SLI thing :) but will they support tri and quad SLI?
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If AMD motherboards would come with SLI support then its pretty obvious that 990FX chipset boards would be able to support Quad SLI...

Note: 990FX is gonna be AMD flagship chipset which means that it would have more PCI-E lanes so i think yes we would get to see some flagship motherboards with Quad SLI/CFX support... :)
 
^^ im not sure though, I read that tri and quad SLI will not be supported on the 9xx chipsets. Dont remember the source unfortunately. Let's see though.

Any confirmation of native USB 3 and PCI E 3?? It will be a bummer if its not supported since the new intel chipsets will be supporting them.
 
Hmmm... nVidia is playing its cards very well. Made peace with Intel and reawakening SLi on AMD chipset after almost 5 years, history shall stand testimony to this.
 
ALPHA17 said:
Hmmm... nVidia is playing its cards very well. Made peace with Intel and reawakening SLi on AMD chipset after almost 5 years, history shall stand testimony to this.
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Nvidia and AMD they both need each other IMO... Nvidia is facing loss because of AMD and AMD is facing loss because of Intel... I think there are many people in the world who only go with an Intel based system coz Intel chipset motherboards supports both CFX & SLI... because of such people Intel earns profit... i mean in billions... So if AMD would add support for SLI on its motherboards.. then it would be a win win situation for both the companies... :) AMD would be able to attract a lot of people to buy their CPUs and Nvidia would be able to sell more GPUs...
 
now we can get a clear comparison of AMD and Intel in a SLI scenario and see if 6/8 cores helps in SLI. Currently i have a AMD/SLI setup and the scaling/performance is quiet good.
 
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