AMD company connects its basic hopes to increase its processor speed after transfer to Socket AM3 with DDR 3-1333 memory instead of present DDR 2-1066; According to some data, socket AM3 processors will get a higher north bridge frequency, which will determine their advantage above socket AM2+ processors .
Associate report that the wide accessibility of socket AM3 motherboard is expected in the second-half of February 2009. In this case AMD will present the first processors socket AM3, which will be the four core : Phenom II X4 925 (2.8 GHz), Phenom II X4 910 (2.6 GHz), Phenom II X4 810 (2.6 GHz) and Phenom II X4 805 (2.5 GHz).
The last two processors will have only 4 Mb cache in the third level from the 6 possible Mb . The three core processors phenom II X3 720 Black edition (2.8 GHz) and Phenom II X3 710 (2.6 GHz) will also appear during February.
Passage to DDR- 3 memory will ensures to phenom II X4 processors a performance increase by 5%. Associate also reports that not all NVIDIA motherboards on base of MCP68 can work with 45 NM AMD processors .