So the first Bulldozer cpu;s will be on AM3, but...

Drenlin

Drenlin

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...it seems they're giving it an update. Does anyone know which chipsets will be capable of updating themselves to AM3r2?

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Should we go for the 8xx chipsets to be safe?
 
If you have the money, why not? Upgrading from AMD to AMD is not as expensive as going from Intel to Intel (in terms of next generation stuff)

And at least amd stuff is backwards compatible most of the time! I hate intel for that...
 
As far as I know, the first desktop bulldozer will be AM3 with both dual and quad channel memory controller. So I guess there could be two board/sockets. One with dual and one with quad channel memory.

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ScottALot said:
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I couldn't agree more with an above quote... AMD systems are so easily upgraded. Not only is the price low, but even the process of putting a new AMD chip in is easy with the AM2 retention design.
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The AM2 bracket is just as simple as 1366/1156/775 quite honestly.

As far as going with 8 series chipsets, 8 series chipsets were AMD's answer to unlocking cores, where they disallowed addition of ACC to the bios's of 8 series chipsets. The chipsets themselves are pretty much the same as the 7 series.
 
Not really. Dont even know why they changed the name of the northbridge. Gigabyte even has a 790 board with a 850 southbridge. The 850 has double the SB/NB link, 2GB/s from 1GB/s. Think it can have a couple more USB 2.0 ports, plus USB 3.0. And Sata 3.0. But some 790/750 already have USB 3.0/SATA 3.0 with a added chip.
 
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