The other big change on the way is the move to on-die L2 cache and, with it, AMDs Socket A. Obviously, socketed Athlons won work with GF cards, so what do we do?
This interesting post at JC’s has speculation about a range of future Athlon developments, including this tasty morsel: Oh, and BTW, if anyone is wondering how to O/C the socket A cpus, here’s how… certain pins on the cpu will designate voltage/multiplier. current way to o/c is to break/short the pin that corresponds to the setting you want. Next wave of o/c devices will sit between the cpu and the socket and short these pins automatically (it wouldn’t be too cool to break those pins off of theat new 2ghz cpu would it?)” This kind of thing does seem possible. Dr. Evil’s keen eye spotted the resistors on top of what appears to be a socketed Athlon in the lower picture here. (Credit JC’s for this link, too.) Assuming these resistors control the CPU’s multiplier setting, a device that sits between the CPU and the socket just might be able to adjust those settings. Anybody have any further insight into this one? Finally, there is the possibility a likelihood, in my view that we’ll see “s
