Socket AM3 and DDR3?

[ownage]

Yepp, gotta love all the memory bandwidth too.

 

[X1337]

Yepp, gotta love all the memory bandwidth too.

how much like 50Gbs or somthing?

 

[ownage]

it depends on the frequency, at the most 1.4Ghz, its 2.8Gbps/pin, and it uses a 136 fine ball grid array (FBGA) packaging. So yeah, its a lot of bandwidth

 

[mammikoura]

well I don't mind new technology coming out, makes the mid range products so much cheaper! And mid range hardware is like the only thing I get , I don't want to spend my money on some nice and awesome dual core when my p4 3.0Ghz can run games without any problems and I can get a car with the money I would be spending on a high end dual core cpu!

 

[Ð88]

They can right ahead an release socket AM3, hell why not release socket AM4 6 months later? All i know is that I will be sticking with my current socket configuration for a few more years before i jump on board with any of that BS.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

It's always ongoing. I'm still stuck with what I have (see sig). It's going to be two years in Feb of 2007 since I built this rig. But you know what? It's still darn fast, even using DDR SDRAM, single core, and a motherboard running at half speed! I'm sure it will handle Vista just fine too. But I do love the dual core CPU's.

 

[♂ÇRÅßßÿ®]

I am still on socket A...

 

[alvino]

Yepp, gotta love all the memory bandwidth too.

Hell yes! The X1950 XTX has about 64Gb/s of bandwidth, I think.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

I am still on socket A...

Whoa, lol. A lot has been achieved since then. My mom's PC is still using the Athlon XP system I built for her awhile back. Still running excellent. Not as good as mine, hehe.

 

[alvino]

Haha, it was only this year that my parents upgraded their computers. My mom was previously using a AMD K6-II and an ancient ATI Rage Turbo. My dad was using an Intel Pentium III with a NVIDIA TNT-2 Riva.