heatsinks that compatible with tbred and future athlon 64...

[$pade]

Was planning to get the slk-800 but I'm not sure if its compatible with future 64bits athlons. anybody know what current heatsinks will be or are most likely to be compatible with future athlons 64?

 

[Soulkeeper]

i've seen a few prototypes pictures and reviews
they are a whole new socket with a different mounting mechanism
i don't even know if they will keep the 4 holes on the motherboards
but prob not

 

[mechBgon]

The new setup will have a very strong clip, about double the clamping force of the SocketA spec, so I don't think you'd want to use it even if you could. The heatsink's clip has a bolt at each end which bolts down into a metal spider that's mounted to the underside of the motherboard to distribute the stress.

The only heatsink I've seen so far that has any supposed cross-compatibility between present CPUs and the Athlon 64's is the Zalman CNPS7000-Cu or its hybrid aluminum/copper sibling... and that's cross-compatible between Pentium4 and Athlon 64, but not SocketA.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

none as far as i konw (apart from waht i just saw above)

on a similar note:
does anybody konw if heatsinks will be interchangeable with the two futre socket types? (700something pin and 900something pin...)