Clarifying Athlon 64 pin issue

[Julio Franco]

To further clarify rumours and statements made before (and in response to my own post yesterday), AMDZone has the official word from AMD regarding Athlon 64 pin count:

There will be a 754, 939, as well as a 940-pin version of the Athlon 64. The 754-pin Athlon 64 will be for the budget systems. The 940-pin Athlon 64 will be the variety at launch. The extra one pin is required to work on the 6-layer Opteron motherboards. The 939-pin Athlon 64’s aren’t ready for shipping yet so they will be out a little later on. As for the Opteron situation, that little extra one pin is required for SMP support due to the necessary HyperTransport links.

 

[TS | Crazyace]

I must say, this pin thing sounds ridiculous

 

[Per Hansson]

Yea, just as ridiculous as Intels different pin designs...

 

[eddy05]

There will be a 754, 939, as well as a 949-pin version of the Athlon 64.

Shouldn't it be 940-pins instead? A typo?

By the way how will single and dual channel affects performance... I'm keen on getting the A64 for my next upgrade but some facts are still unclear..

 

[TS | Crazyace]

Geez, it wasn't a shot at AMD dilly. It's much to easy to take shots at AMD, now isn't it?

 

[Per Hansson]

I was just being Ironic Ace ;-)

Shouldn't it be 940-pins instead? A typo?

By the way how will single and dual channel affects performance... I'm keen on getting the A64 for my next upgrade but some facts are still unclear..

Yes, that's a typo...

Single and dual channel should only be required for multi processor systems, to allow them to scale better...

I'm really quite confused by all this also...