02-10-2002, 08:14 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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I would have to agree with Orestis. A new mobo will be required for a hammer proc. It may even need newer RAM because in nine monthes when it does come out, the DDR standard will have already moved to DDR333 and DDR400. If not QDR.
It would be very cool thou if you could use a Socket 462 to run a Hammer in only 32-bit mode. As to be upgrade friendly. It wouldn't support anything 64-bit and of course would get a major performace hit. Just changeup the mobo and you've almost double proc performance. That would be a very market savvy thing for AMD to do. But we know that is near impossible and most unlikely.
What im wondering is if they are going to change socket format for the hammer are they going to do the same for the XP/Duron lines too? Or are they going to actually have two different socket formats in between the processors? Sounds like an Intel move...
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