http://www.osnews.com/story/15504/AMD_To_Unveil_Rev_F_Opteron_Chips Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:14:50 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?152657 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152657 I'm a bit confused with AMDs new chips. I read press release on AMDs website stating current Opteron motherboards are future compatible with the Quad Core Opteron chips.

It sounds like AMD is releasing a Quad core socket 940 chip that will be backward compatible And then they have the Socket F (1207 pins) which will be for the two to eight proccessor (with 4 cores each!) motherboards.

It sounds like AMD still has a littlbe bit of the easy upgrade path if you can get Socket 940 quad core. You just have to start fresh if you want multiple CPUs.

Can anybody tell me if I'm correct? I'm just not clear on things after reading the posted article as well as AMDs press release.

What I'm really want to figure out is if I buy a motherboard that supports both Socket 939 & 940 would I then be able to upgrade to that quad core Opteron?

Here is the press release from AMD.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~1... Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vimh) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?152665 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152665 Yes, current (Socket F) motherboards are upgradable to quad-core. Socket 940 is now officially obsolete. Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?152679 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152679 That's where my confusion lies. Ok so 940 is dead. I purchase a Socket AM2 motherboard though. According to AMDs site the 1000 series of quad core proccessors will run using socket AM2. The 2000 & 8000 series use the Socket F. Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vimh) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?152681 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152681 Yes, Socket AM2 is also quad-core upgradable. (In theory.)Edited 2006-08-15 21:01 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?152825 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152825 Is AMD's new socket f similar to intel's socket 775 the CPU pins being on the socket itself?Edited 2006-08-16 10:02 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (happycamper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?152919 http://www.osnews.com/thread?152919 Yes, Socket F is a land grid array (LGA). Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments