The first completely new hardware from AMD since Athlon 64 and it should
be great. I especially like that I can get an AM3+ socket mobo, use my
current CPU and RAM and buy a Bulldozer CPU later when I have the cash.
I'm really excited about this one folks. Intel better keep it's eye on the
rear view.
According to a roadmap leaked by a Swedish forum, the desktop version of
Bulldozer comes by April. Engineering samples of Zambezi AM3+ CPU are
expected in December 2010 and hopefully this has already happened.
Production candidate 32nm silicon should be ready by February 2011 and the
CPU should be production ready by March 2011.
The launch should take place in April, which is the first month of Q2
2011. Many people expected this CPU at a later date, and this up to 8-core
processor series might be something to get AMD much needed traction and
attention.
The Scorpius platform also comes with AMD 990FX Northbridge that can take
care of 2x16 PCIe Crossfire mode and it comes matched with SB950. The new
SB950 southbridge supports Raid 5, 14 USB 2.0, 6 SATA ports at 6Gb/s as
well as AMD overdrive. Unfortunately there is no native USB 3.0 support.
Scorpius also supports AMD 990X chipset with two 8X PCIe Crossfire capable
slots, AMD 880G in AMD3+ version that has one 16X PCIe slot as well as
integrated DX10.1 graphics card at 560MHz. The last chipset to support
Scorpius needs is AMD 970 and this little one has only one PCIe16X slot,
but the vast majority of people don't need more anyway.
http://www.amdforum.se/f24/llano-cpu-prestanda-3615/#post28660
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