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Old Mar 15, 2011, 07:04 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by Yellow&Nerdy? View Post
It might be that AMD is releasing Zambezi with two different pin-counts. Like for example the 4-core and 6-core variants will be backwards compatible, but not the 8-core version. Or they will release two "generations" of CPUs and one of them is backwards compatible and the other one is not. Who knows. I guess we'll have to wait until June, if there isn't more delays.
IMO this does make a lot of sence



i can see them making the 4/6core cpus compatible and leaving the 8/12/16 core CPUs as AM3+ Only.
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