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To: Petz who wrote (212748)	10/5/2006 9:24:26 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, Re: I was disappointed when I saw that 4x4 needed the new Opteron socket, eliminating less expensive AM2 CPUs. I thought it must be a limitation of socket AM2 that it couldn't support cache coherency.> Future foggy. This from Dailytech last July. AMD announced today during a conference call that a new platform will be created and focused on just for the enthusiast desktop market. AMD has long been driving high-performance features on its Athlon family of processors and according to a number of surveys, most gamers are swaying towards AMD systems rather than Intel systems for gaming, or other application intense applications. Called 4x4, AMD's new platform brings along dual-socket motherboards. The new 4x4 platform will feature two dual-core chips coupled with a dual-socket capable motherboard. AMD will also be releasing a new enthusiast focused chipset for the market, which is designed to take non-ECC unbuffered DDR memory. The new motherboards will be AM2 based, and take new AM2 FX-62 and higher -- all AM2 Athlon FX processors will have at least two cores. AMD says that 4x4 is not simply workstation and server technology reduced down to consumer level, but is in fact, a whole new design. The company indicated that the new 4x4 chipset will be able to allow each processor core to have direct access to memory, and to have direct access to each other. The technology is called Direct Connect, and according to AMD, will be able to give huge boost to performance over traditional multi-socket platforms. dailytech.com My take at the time was that dual socket AM2 MOBOS would be upgradable to 4 core CPUs when available to give 8 cores on the MOBO. -tgp