AMD Socket AM2- M2 motherboards to cost $5 to $10 more
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Fuad is reporting that AMD’s socket AM2 is going to cost $5-$10 more than current socket 939’s being used on high end motherboards. This is no shocker and the increased socket cost should level out once production gets in the millions.
AMD socket M2/AM2 based motherboards aren’t likely to cost very much more than existing sockets. AMD advised its motherboard parners that the new motherboards will cost them only a little bit more. Socket vendors can make those sockets with small tooling changes to existing Socket 939 and should keep the cost to N almost equivalent level. Socket AM2/M2 boards will use DDR 2 DIMM sockets only, so you can say goodbye to DDR 1 memory.
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