Questions of Compatibility: AMD, AM3, and Bulldozer

Posted on Thursday, April 21 2011 @ 2:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

HotHardware has a Q&A about AMD AM3 compatibility with Bulldozer, you can read it over here.

It's been several weeks since Asus announced that certain socket AM3 motherboards would support AMD's upcoming Bulldozer processors. Since then, we've turned up additional rumors on the nature of such support. MSI has also announced its own plans to retrofit some existing AM3 boards with Bulldozer compatibility. What follows is the general shape of the situation as we currently understand it...

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