Could the AM1 socket be saved?

[Chris_223]

So I was looking at old am1 cpus to put in a build for a guy who does nothing much but email, ms word, and that type of stuff. Maybe a 1080p movie once in a while. And it came to me. Could a really good cpu be made for the AM1 socket? I know very little about cpu sockets, architecture, and that type of stuff. Could an FX, core i5, i3, or i7 type cpu be made for this socket? And if so, could it be saved?

 

[ccampy]

So I was looking at old am1 cpus to put in a build for a guy who does nothing much but email, ms word, and that type of stuff. Maybe a 1080p movie once in a while. And it came to me. Could a really good cpu be made for the AM1 socket? I know very little about cpu sockets, architecture, and that type of stuff. Could an FX, core i5, i3, or i7 type cpu be made for this socket? And if so, could it be saved?

No not without creating a brand-new motherboard to support it as a new chipset would be needed

 

[Rogue Leader]

So I was looking at old am1 cpus to put in a build for a guy who does nothing much but email, ms word, and that type of stuff. Maybe a 1080p movie once in a while. And it came to me. Could a really good cpu be made for the AM1 socket? I know very little about cpu sockets, architecture, and that type of stuff. Could an FX, core i5, i3, or i7 type cpu be made for this socket? And if so, could it be saved?

No.

First off its made by AMD so no i3 i5 or i7, secondly, they stopped producing CPUs for it many years ago, and third the architecture behind it is old and slow, so even if a fast CPU was made for it, it would be choked to death by slow everything else.

AMD would need to build a new CPU for it, companies like to make money, they move forward not backward.

 

[TechyInAZ]

You could put a more powerful version of the Athlon chip into it. But if you were in AMD's shoes, you'd see why it would be pointless...

The problem with the AM1 socket is it's incredibly low feature set. Single channel RAM, 1 x16 PCIE slot, hardly any drive support etc. etc.

When people are buying high performance CPUs, manufacturers need to balance out speed with features aswell. You could easily make the worlds fastest CPU with no features, and hardly anybody would buy it.

Plus, just like what ccampy said, higher end CPUs require more power, which the AM1 socket simply cannot support.