K8 Mainboard : Socket 940 and Socket 754

[K6]

Is possible to use a The 754-pin ClawHammer on a Socket 940 mainboard?

This can be a very nice upgrade path.

 

[AA0]

I would doubt it, the chips are different. The price for the 940s will be high too. They are designed for 2 markets, remember that AMD is aiming to make more money, with the 940 they will.

 

[K6]

on current AMD-8000 chipset there is no indication if it is for ClawHammer or for Sledgehammer.

So the logic of the two CPU is similar.


the pin pattern of this CPU

can also include the pin pattern of this

 

[Athlon4all]

Technically, It might be possible to make a Socket 754 to Socket 940 adapter, but it still wouldn't work. SledgeHammer uses a Dual Channel DDR Memory controller, whereas ClawHammer uses a Single CHannel DDR Memory Controller and thus the traces for a Socket 754 board from the CPU to Memory are radically different and simpler when compared to Socket 940 Sledge Hammers.

 

[K6]

<< Technically, It might be possible to make a Socket 754 to Socket 940 adapter, but it still wouldn't work. SledgeHammer uses a Dual Channel DDR Memory controller, whereas ClawHammer uses a Single CHannel DDR Memory Controller and thus the traces for a Socket 754 board from the CPU to Memory are radically different and simpler when compared to Socket 940 Sledge Hammers. >>



If the 940 socket offer more stuff is OK.

A SledgeHammer CPU will use all the pin , a ClawHammes will leave some pin unused.

Just think about a mainboard with two groups of DDR , if you use a Claw you have to fill only one group , with the Sledge you must fill the two groups.

Is like adapting a Slot1 CPU on a Slot2 mainboar

 

[Athlon4all]

<< If the 940 socket offer more stuff is OK.

A SledgeHammer CPU will use all the pin , a ClawHammes will leave some pin unused.

Just think about a mainboard with two groups of DDR , if you use a Claw you have to fill only one group , with the Sledge you must fill the two groups.

Is like adapting a Slot1 CPU on a Slot2 mainboar >>

I doubt it because that is hardly cost effective (ClawHammer boards will need to have the traces for Dual Channel DDR), and besides, like AA0 said, SledgeHammer is aimed at an entirely different market and while it may be possible in what you are saying, AMD would never do it.