AM3 CPUs comes in early February

Quads and Three cores DDR3

AMD is preparing to launch many three and quad cores based on new AM3 socket but they will all be based on Deneb / Heka architecture. AM3 finally brings overpricved DDR3 memory to Dragon platform as DDR3 was exclusively Intel’s thing for almost two years.

Some of these new CPUs might have less L3 cache compared to Deneb core while Heka is nothing more than Deneb with one core disabled. Heka is triple core and of course both are based on 45nm.

The fastest to launch AM3 CPU will work at 2.8GHz for Three core and 2.6GHz for quad core and the faster AM3 at 3GHz and 3.1GHz CPUs will come in Q2 2009. The will all be branded as Phenom II X4 8x0 for the quad core or Phenom II X3 7x0 for three cores.

The beauty of these CPUs is that they will work just fine in your old AM2+ motherboard, at least most of them...

Source: Fudzilla