AMD shows off Socket F at Supercomputing

CHIP FIRM AMD and its partners are showing off a number of server prototypes at the Supercomputing show using Socket F.

Sources said MSI has a Socket F dual board with two HTX slots likely to available in February. Asus has two and four socket versions, both of which have dual HTX slots.

And Arima is showing off its SW320 which has both HTX slots and socket 940 slots.

Other interesting boards include an Asus ATX S939 board which supports Athlon 64 and Opteron 1XX, with two PCI-X slots, two PCI slots, one PCIe 16X, ATI Rage onboard, and four plus four S-ATA.

Four of these are based on Nvidia's chipset and four from a Marvell S-ATA 2 chip.

At $250, and with four DIMM sockets supporting up to 8GB, this one sounds like a killer server or workstation basis. µ