Socket AM3+, End Of the Line/End Of Life (EOL)?

[Dirk Broer]

There's increasing rumour that AMD will stop with the present range of FX CPUs, at least: will stop producing new CPUs for Socket AM3+ (Drat!)
The future is/seems APU as I wrote before, at least: Socket FM2+.

What if AMD does have new FX CPUs, but has them planned for Socket FM2+ as well? They would not be able to use the APU chipsets, but nothing really stands in the way to have FM2+ mobos with different chipsets -just like you can buy Socket 1155 or 1150 mobos with different chipsets, be it that they all support the same CPUs-.

The present range of FM1, FM2 and FM2+ boards all lack something that the AM3 and AM3+ boards did have: real top-of-the-line mobos, e.g.

• Asrock Fatal1ty/Extreme9
• ASUS ROG
• ASUS TUF
• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
• MSI GD80/Power/Gaming

A new range of FM2+ mobos with the long awaited 1090FX chipset might just fit in...and preferably with eight RAM slots too and/or the possibility to add another CPU/APU or coprocessor.