FM2+ Octa and/or Hex Cores?

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XtremeAero426

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When I want to switch to a much more powerful CPU, I'd have to change motherboards. And I've been told that you have to format your drives to use them with a new motherboard. Is that wrong? (Because if it is I've been wasting a lot of time formatting some of my old hard drives.)
 
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CDdude55

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That was debunked as a fake i hear, even online you can't find almost anything about it.

FM2+ boards are oriented towards AMD's APU line of chips, so i'm doubtful about a very high core count APU. Usually the performance is increaed a lot more in the GPU side of things.

Granted in the future such a thing will probably arrive. But you should have to format your drives. Maybe a BIOS update.
 
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CDdude55

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Only if the new board is a new chipset, then yes a reinstall is needed. But i see no issue in just backing up your data and reinstalling.
 
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Brunostako

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With Windows is a matter if try and error. It's not needed to format your disks when changing platform, less if your changing to a very similar platform, you just need to uninstall the previous drivers and install the new ones. But i will admit that i recommend formating the main disk, i experienced some OS issues when i don't do it.

That thing about the 6 core APU is a fake and was confirmed by AMD.
 
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i went from intel's X58 chipset to Z68 to Z87 to X99 without re-installing even once. the chipset and RAID drivers just worked in the new build. i had to remove some of the old USB and NIC drivers and replace them with new ones, but for the most part it was problem free. all i had to do was turn on RAID in the BIOS before booting into windows for the first time since my OS volume is on two SSDs in RAID 0 and everything fired right up .

i didn't even bother re-installing when i migrated to new SSDs. i just used acronis true image to move my OS from 2x OCZ Vertex 3 Pro to 2x Samsung 840 Pro then to 2x Samsung 250 Pro.

i haven't used an AMD CPU since the San Diego core FX 57 days (summer of 2005 i believe when AMD was kicking the **** out of Intel), so i don't know what it's like in the green camp right now. but from what i read their sockets and chipsets last anywhere from 2 to 4 generations of CPUs. so i'm sure that there will be an APU utilizing the FM2+ socket in the near future again since it was only introduced in 2012.
 
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XtremeAero426

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I'd be switching from A88 to LGA 2011-3 or LGA 1150 so yes I would need to.
 
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anxiousinfusion

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No, this is false! The "8890K" is a confirmed fake leak created on another tech forum. The next FM2+ APU will not have six cores. Don't let this dissuade you from buying Carrizo, though.
 
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