Is there an AMD 940-socket motherboard? I found one at the Gigabyte site and it said it was the latest socket motherboard......is it true??? There was only one model for this..but I wonder-- *www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_List.aspx?VenderType=AMD&CPUType=socket+940
AMD launched the AMD64 based CPUs with 2 sockets namely Socket 754 and Socket 940.
754 was mainstream socket supporting the AMD Athlon 64 series CPUs.
940 was meant for Server applications,it supported AMD Opteron CPUs along with AMD Athlon 64 FX-51,53.This platform needed Registered ECC memory.
939 came much later.Slowly 939 became the main platform.Still 940 based boards are available but mostly for Dual CPU Server boards for Opteron meant for AMD Opteron 2xx and 8xx series CPUs.
the NEW AMD socket, M2 or F will alsi have 940 pins, so please dont get confused between the 2.
Well Socket AM2 is gonna be a replacement socket for 939 mostly,meaning it will be more of a mainstream platform for desktops,workstations etc. etc..
Socket F is meant for Opterons,meaning high end Servers mainly.It will be based on Land Grid array technology similar to Intels current platform.
The socket will have 1207 pins and will be supporting mostly AMD Quad-Core Opteron level CPUs.
do u mean to say that 940 will soon replace 939 on PC's
Well you can say that 940 is on its way out but 939 will hang on for some time.It will act as value platform may be just like 754.939 pin Semprons are slowly emerging so this makes sense to me.
I guess this should solve all your queries.
