ok, I will admit I am lost!
GnomeWizardd
Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
With all the new AMD chips coming out I am completely lost cause I did not keep up with the times! Whats chips/ chipsets and sockets are for the consumer and which are for the servers and stuff!?!?!?!?!? 
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Appleloosa: A barton core under the Duron name. Possibly only 256kb l2 cache. This will fill the budget box role.
Athlon XP: Current cores. Thoroughbred B and Barton respectively. Self-explanatory.
Athlon XP socket 754: Uses the Athlon 64 (Clawhammer) architecture with 64 bit disabled. According to sources, this chip will NOT use dual channel DDR, but will be 30% faster than the existing AXP. This will fill the mid-level role for consumers.
Athlon FX socket 940: Full-fledged Clawhammer architecture. Both 32 and 64 bit modes available, plus hybrid operation for X86-64 Windows port. Will support dual channel DDR. It's unknown if it will support DCDDR on a 400 bus, or only 333. It's not necessary for the FX to run anything more than 333 as it already sports about 6GB of memory bandwidth. It's also rumoured that this might not even be clawhammer, but a rebadged Opteron (Sledgehammer). This will probably be the chip this community gets. It's also not known if it will require ECC/registered memory like the Opteron. Enthusiast role.
Opteron socket 940: Sledgehammer architecture. Server chips. MIGHT be the chip to buy if the AFX doesn't pan out.
Chipsets:
AMD8000 socket 940: AMD's own chipset that supports the Opteron chips. Very very fast. Dual channel DDR, DDR333, needs registered/ecc memory. Enterprise level.
Crush K8 socket 940: nVidia's nForce3 chipset. C0 revisions appears to be ugly slow by my own experience. Methinks nVidia needs a C1 or C2 revision before this board really gets good. Supports Opterons currently. Might support socket 940 Athlon FX? Time will tell. Consumer level, but not even worthy of that.
K8T socket 940: Via's implementation of Opteron/Socket 940. I'm not quite sure how fast this functions, I've not seen any benchmarks of it. Considering VIA's history, it's probably consumer level. MSI's boards using this chipset reflect this fact.
SIS and ALI have chipsets, but are they ever really worth mentioning?
Mind you, none of the chips except the 940 pin Opteron are set in stone. No one also knows if the 939 pin is ever going to show.
Athlon 64
Workstation/Server single processor:
Opteron 1xx
Workstation/Server dual/quad/eight proc:
Opteron 2xx, 8xx