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Pictures of AMD's new socket surface

by Steve Kerrison on 9 November 2005, 16:38

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Pictures of the new socket for AMD's Opteron processors, known as Socket F, have appeared on Tweakers.net, a Dutch tech-website.

Given that I can speak fluent Dutch (thanks Babelfish), I'll do a little bit of translation from the website.

Also known as Socket 1207, socket F has an LGA arrangement, with pins on the board rather than the processor, much like Intel's current socket system. There's DDR-II support, and also the suggestion that processors could contain PCIe controllers. It's also looking like individual processor cores could have their own pinout to the motherboard. There's also going to be a socket 1206, which will be similar what socket 939 is to socket 940.

Interesting stuff, though we won't be using them for a while.



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Looks like the clamping bits rather meaty.

I like the idea of pins on the mobo, if I bought a top of the range processor I'd rather bork the mobo bending a pin than the processor.
Yes but it removes the responsibility from that of the CPU manufacturer to that of the mobo vendors.

Margins are low in Mobo world, but huge in CPU world….
what does it mean by they're not going to be using it? Does this mean we won't be seeing an LGA Athlon processor anytime soon? This really has nothing to do with M2 right? Or am I just kidding myself…
True David. In fact do you guys remember the worry about LGA 775 and people suggesting boards would be good for one or two socket installations? Then the likes of Rys got their hands on review samples and could quite happy insert and remove the processor multiple times without hassle.

At least mobo manufacturers are used to one LGA socket already.
M2 comes first, then Socket F is next.

I don't mind LGA 775 boards, we have used it a fair few times.

I just feel sorry for the average punter…