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paul - I think he'd had a few too many whenever he picked up this info

That is exactly what I thought as well reading it first.

But then, apart from "Socket 764" which is clearly a typo (or more probably the transcript of yesterday night's dull scribbles ;) ) those cryptic Pin-numbers could well make sense if e.g.

1. There are problems with Socket 754 detected. Yes, pretty late, but could be possible that this problem only occured recently with new steppings now in volume-production.

2. AMD learned more about Prescotts capabilities and concludes 128-bit memory channel is indeed needed for launch already to prevent from any QS-rants after Prescott-launch - unless anything above 2 GHz is achievable.

Boths ways it would imply some different pinout from Opteron 1xx - anything between 755 and 939 pincount - which would somewhat fit the cryptic numbers of the article.

K.