Is Socket AM3 dead?

[zlejedi]

Yeah it's a real piss-off that Bulldozer is not AM3 compatible in spite of AMD's claims otherwise.

I've lost all respect for AMD as a company at this point. They used to make great CPUs for the enthusiast community and offered excellent socket longevity, but these days they've completely lost touch with us, the hardware enthusiasts, that they should be viewing as an important part of their target market.

Given their track record, we won't see anything new for AM3.

Perhaps we'll see a class action lawsuit. Saying Bulldozer would be AM3 is false advertising in a sense. The problem is that it would be difficult to prove. I don't think AMD came right out and officially stated or guaranteed that Bulldozer would work on AM3.

I'll bet that the motherboard manufacturers are completely up in arms over this whole fiasco. It's like somebody's idea of a bad joke.

So true - I even bought higher end 890GX mobo together with 1055T thinking that mobos on new chipset released so close to BD launch will surely offer me an upgrade patch and I'll drop in nice power efficient 8 core 32nm chip for BOINC as replacement.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Yeah it's a real piss-off that Bulldozer is not AM3 compatible in spite of AMD's claims otherwise.

I've lost all respect for AMD as a company at this point. They used to make great CPUs for the enthusiast community and offered excellent socket longevity, but these days they've completely lost touch with us, the hardware enthusiasts, that they should be viewing as an important part of their target market.

Given their track record, we won't see anything new for AM3.

Perhaps we'll see a class action lawsuit. Saying Bulldozer would be AM3 is false advertising in a sense. The problem is that it would be difficult to prove. I don't think AMD came right out and officially stated or guaranteed that Bulldozer would work on AM3.

I'll bet that the motherboard manufacturers are completely up in arms over this whole fiasco. It's like somebody's idea of a bad joke.

AM3+ and AM3 chipsets uses the same PCB design and pinouts it was not like mobo makers are investing much to make AM3+ boards. I'll bet AM3+ was released 6 months prior to the BD launch so mobo makers could grab some cash off suckers while they definitely knew BD was dogshit all along.

 

[JimKiler]

AM3+ and AM3 chipsets uses the same PCB design and pinouts it was not like mobo makers are investing much to make AM3+ boards. I'll bet AM3+ was released 6 months prior to the BD launch so mobo makers could grab some cash off suckers while they definitely knew BD was dogshit all along.

I was thinking AM3+ was ready and the mobo makers wanted to start selling them when BD was released but BD was such a dog they kept pushing the release date back.

I got a 990X board knowing BD was a dog but it will work good for my 955 black processor.