Will AM2+ supports Phenom X8 (45nm) ?

I know intel will not support Octal core on LGA775. So no upgrade for me in the future.

Is AM2+ the safest root to Octal core CPU in the future?

AMD told that phenom X8 will be two Phenom X4 glued. If the HT isn't the problem why didn't they do 2 Athlon X2 to make X4 and waited more then a year for K10 ?

I want 8 cores for Photoshop and 3d. Im sick and tired of clicking ona filter, going to make a coffee, weld a frame, install an engne, testdrive to Edmonton, spend the night at a strip joint, come back and still watch that freakin hourglass!

Hellboy, pron is a prerequisite to any system configuretion. First you check how well it can display full screen Vivid Video at 2560x1920 while encoding Jenna Jameson's Greatest Hits in the background and downloading the entire month's vids from Youpron.com. If it pases that test, then you can go onto boring crap like Photoshop.

Why does Apple get the pick o' the chipz? Easy. They put them into systems that they make a 150% profit on. Money talks and B.S. walks, dude.

yeah, an octuple core won't really make a difference, nor even in games. But yeah, I do video editing and encoding (its my job actually in my case).
What about X6 two triple core. That could be interesting if its on a budget.

Still, AMD needs to enlighten the solo-core by making it faster and faster and more power efficient so the multiple cores gets more respect.

It would be so sweet to have the choise between : Phenom X4-X5-X6-X7-X8

Just think of the way they can adjust price points to the number of cores you have.
Plus cpus that have a bad core can still be used.
Our current system of setting multipllier fixed to 8-9-10-11- and set pricepoints acording to it is stupid.
All cpus need to be open multiplier and thus overcloking is done more easy. Price will be by the number of cores.

According to the roadmap I saw, beginning next year the AM3 boards will be released which will probably be just in time for the 8 core Phenom chip and for the 45 mm chip.

why does everyone assume everyone does nothing but gaming and email? christ, i can tell you flatout there's a good reason i have a dual core, had it when they came out. i will get a quad next. i will use it. i bias my build more towards the cpu than the gpu because i do lots of different stuff at once.

Yeah, I can't even call myself a gamer really right now. I don't think I've played more than 20 hours myself in the last month. More of an electronics geek or enthusiast. But, when I build a rig I am not going to go all out to try and get the highest frame rate possible. I go for the most stock performance I can get for my money, for the kinds of things I do on a regular basis.

And besides, GPU dictate FPS more in games than anything. And it will be that way till games start to optimize for multiple cores and threads. But as it is right now, most people don't even use both cores on a dual core, let alone that much of a quad.

I'll admit that I used to spend hours a day, playing online games like EVE, or Guildwars though. EVE's New graphics engine can actually push modern video cards, have to watch how much is going on with my 2600xt, and I still can't have it at max settings. Not to mention FPS's like Unreal Tournament, Doom3, Halo. Other games like Civ 4, lol I think they should make a benchie for performance in that game, one that measures wait time between turns, love watching the CPU usage on my x2 4200EE jump during the AI turns.

Granted I was amazed how well Command and Conquer Generals:Zero hour started to run after I upgraded to the X2 from the XP. Use to have problems with the game choking the system after a long run in the game due to high numbers of units.

But, I do almost everything on my computer. Burn CD's DVD's, encode from video files to DVD's. Even do my own lightscribe labels. I even slipstream my windows xp install discs every time there are enough updates to warrant it. I'm even thinking about finding a way to transfer my old VHS movies to DVD, just need to find a way to do it.. I have some movies that you won't ever see on DVD, the THX Version of the old star wars trilogy.

Ever looked at a dual Xeon 5300/5400 or Opteron 2300 system? That's 8 cores right here and now and for a lot less than dual-CPU setups used to be.

What

Seems like you haven't heard of Microsoft. They'll make sure you can use all 8 cores by 2009... in fact, from what I hear you'll probably need a 16 core cpu to run Windows then with 48GB of RAM. And it'll still take 2 minutes to boot Windows!

@mathos:
I use an emu professional sound card that has amazing quality, the E-mu 0404.

My capture device is an el-cheapo encore ELTV with the philips SAA chipset, its one of the greatest for video capturing, its quality is so good that you barely notice a difference when capturing a digital camera via analog instead of doing the firewire capure.

My VCRs are: Samsung SV 641X, Philips VR550, Philips VR588, Panasonic J31, and a Panavox.
The best picture comes from the samsung for sure, its 6 head hi-fi stereo. The philips VR550 has a great picture, but its a little bit more grainy. The VR588 is older, brazilian video but NTSC compatible, and along with the samsung the image quality is the greatest, its a shame its 4-head mono... The J31 is one of the worst, but mine is so old and so heavily used that I understant it... I wouldn't capture anything on that one except those old SLP that my other videos can't play. The panavox is the "all terrain tank" where it has a very nice picture and a not so nice sound, but it plays very well the tapes in bad shape or with fungus. Maybe it will be the first one to die on my studio...

Then I have a Sanyo betamax but don't know if you are interested in that format.


@zenmaster:
If you really need 8 cores you can go dual xeon or dual socket F, they are 8 cores ready today, so you will be able to put a quad core and then the other quad when you want it. In europe the barcelonas are available, at least you can order them in alternate.es for example, but I would wait...