Not bad, not bad at all. Especially keeping the HSF mount same as usual w/ the other Athlon 64 counterparts. This saves a few bucks or more for some people that's for sure ;).

The point of the article is that your current Athlon64 Heatsink/Fans will likely NOT work on the new AM2 cage. We didn't have a single HSF in house that would fit the new AM2 mounting cage.

lol, do people even read these articles or jsut try to get the first comment?

I think the answer is rather obvious in this case.

Oops. I kinda speed reading there, lol my bad :)

No..... you're just and IDIOT!

he can't read, you can't write...let's call the whole thing off...

;-)

Very bad news this! I was definitely planning to move my current cooling over to the new socket. This adds even more cost to upgrading :(

Very good info tough. So thanks a bunch for the article. I used to think that the only things that would not move over was the CPU, memory and motherboard. Now I guess we will have to add cooling to that list.

Is it just me, or are socket 940 and socket AM2 too similar? I don't think that the differences are obvious enough. It would be pretty easy to mistake one for the other. Also, I don't understand the change in heatsink mounts, unless the cooling rewuirements have changed enough that previous coolers are inadequate. Maybe they are trying to encourage OEMs to buy their heatsinks from AMD instead of making their own? I hope the new heatsinks will at least still use the locking lever design. That was pretty simple and worked well.

I was hoping for a lot more information when I saw the article. I thought maybe AMD was ahead of schedule and so we were going to get some details early. But the article says they're a little behind. Oh well. At least the delay 'til summer will coincide with me getting the money to upgrade. Of course I need to see a few reviews first.