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To: pgerassi who wrote (195183)	4/26/2006 5:37:29 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: You evidently forget that HT 3.0 is fully backwards compatible and all HT versions are auto configured. AMD could implement HT 3.0 on all CPUs for all sockets and no one will notice when the CPUs are on MBs with HT 1.0 and 2.0. Only when used with a MB with HT 3.0 and it is activated by the chipset/BIOS/OS will it be evident. I also believe HT 3.0 should be backwards compatible with HT 1.0 and HT 2.0. My guess is that the K8L design was more or less finalized before the HT 3.0 specs were set. However it is possible that AMD designed K8L using earlier preliminary HT 3.0 specs which could be very similar or identical to the ratified HT 3.0 specs. In that case K8L would only need minor tweaks, or perhaps no tweaks at all, to be HT 3.0 compliant by launch time.