Why have I not heard one bit of news about this?

[Crescent13]

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Why have I not heard that they were released yet ? I searched and didn't find anything on the forums here so I thought I'd let y'all know about it.

 

[aka1nas]

Interesting, The retail socket F chips do not come with a heatsink. Aren't these supposed to be LGA type also instead of pin arrays?

When do motherboards come out for them?

 

[Avalon]

Is there a difference between Socket Am2 Opty's and these? Besides being able to use FBDIMMs?

 

[aka1nas]

I was pretty sure socket F was going to be in an LGA style package like the current Intel chips. Other than that I think it's pretty much just a server version of the current AM2 chips.

 

[Sonikku]

How is it then that we had 939 Opterons on the same platform as Athlon 64? Taking another look, the AM2 page has Opterons of it's own...

 

[the Chase]

They have been for sale for awhile now, buy a couple and let us know what you think.(and how they overclock of course).

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: Avalon
Is there a difference between Socket Am2 Opty's and these? Besides being able to use FBDIMMs?

So far as I know, just "the usual": the socket-F Opterons will require registered RAM and come in varities that can be used in multi-CPU configurations. I haven't seen any benchmarks of Socket F Opterons yet.