"General" == General Schvantzkoph writes:

General On Wed, 19 May 2004 05:36:34 +0100, the gnome wrote:
Seems to me that they will use the same socket as the current
range of Opteron socket 940 or socket 939, whichever is more
suitable at the time.



That makes it a bit difficult to purchase a mobo and opterons now,
unless you can just clip off the excess pin at a later date

the_gnome

General The are definitely doing it for the Opteron (940 pin) they
General haven't decided if they are going to do it for the consumer
General part (939 pin). My guess is that they will but it might not
General happen until a couple of quarters after the server parts
General come out. If you really want a dual core upgrade path then
General buy an Opteron board now. Personally I wouldn't worry about
General future compatibility, you can always buy a new motherboard
General when the time comes. Chances are when the dual core parts
General come out they'll support DDRII RAM so you'll want to upgrade
General your RAM also. There will also be SATA drives that support
General command queueing so you'll want a new drive to go with the
General new CPU and RAM. You see where I'm going with this, in two
General years there will be enough improvements in the other
General components of your system that you'll want a whole new box
General anyway.

True in most cases after 1-2 years one has to upgrade motherboard and
cpu for many different reasons. Memory is another big reason. I would
suspect these new motherboards in 2 years will have a different memory
setup.

Does any of the current sata drives or controllers support command queueing?

Wondering? The last time I looked at sata drives they were the same as
ide drives.

Later