That's definitely the way to get end users to adopt your new platform I guess. I'm sure it'll put a few noses out of joint along the way Socket 754 owners are very restricted in their upgrade path anyway; but the one that surprised me was the discontinuing of the X2
i'm pretty mixed about this. for example, i'm buying pc parts bit by bit for a build, and now my 2gb of pc4000 ddr1 ram will depreciate in value really quickly. i also have to get rid of a motherboard aswell, so this kinda sux. i better be able to get my money back from re-selling it
on the other hand, it will be nice to have a sure upgrade path, but there arent exactly many decent budget am2 overclockers boards as of yet..
this is sad as it was not long ago that i built my rig but oh well conroe is ony couple months away now,to anyone who are building now....sell your **** and just wait for conroe its simple.