Yeah, but THG almost always reviews preproduction engineering samples. So good luck actually finding any of those motherboards now. **L** It's a good thing that this system isn't being built until the summer.
Now to poke fun at AMD and see what kind of poor reasoning people like Connie will try to defend AMD.
Sure, in the future it'll be easy to get these motherboards that support the varying voltages. The same occured when Intel released the P3 on the same chips and slots that the Celerons used. And Intel quickly learned how bad of an idea it was to do things this way.
All those poor AMD users out there now who want to use the new .13 micron chips will STILL have to go with a new motherboard to properly support their chip, just like any Intel user will to use Intel's new .13micron chips. It's just plain fact.
A different socket ensures that a customer won't shove a .13micron chip into a motherboard that doesn't support it.
While just a change in voltage regulators ensures that there will be idiots out there who fry their chip by putting it into an older motherboard. But it allows a customer to take an old chip and use it in a new system.
Forgive me for being confused on how there's any advantage to putting an old chip into a new system. Intel obviously went the smarter route to ensure that half-informed customers don't do something that they will come to regret. AMD just took the method that cost them the least amount of money to implement without a single care for any customers.
Big surprise there.
- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.