OT: dual-core or 64 bit?

Jonathan Berry berryja at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 00:08:49 UTC 2007


On 1/30/07, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> > They are out.  There has not been as much talk about it for some
> > reason.  I have been surprised at that.  But you want any Socket AM2
> > AMD CPU (which is the newest) or I think Socket F is the other new
> > socket (I think for the Opteron class CPUs ?).  Socket 939 and 940
>
> I think socket 940 IS AM2

Nope.  They both have 940 pins, but they are different sockets.  Hence
the AM2 name, rather than a pin count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2

Jonathan




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