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[jhalada]

wbmw,

Actually, I made a mistake, I should have said that AMD added 1 HT link. There are going to be 4 HT links vs. 3 (that fit into 940 package) and Socket 1207 apparently will be able to use them. The difference between the pin counts is more than 1 HT link.

Further, it seems that there is some forward compatibility built into the sockets. The HT3.0 very likely and possibly DDR3. Another component that can eat pins that will make it into future mobos and CPUs is spearate voltage plane for the memory controller. That is certainly going to consume extra pins, but don't account for any power delivery differences between current Socket F and Socket AM2 (the split voltage is not available for current processors).

Joe