ya! you got the itch, and it needs scratchin.... REAL BAD!
you want to go cross-platform.......
wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to use one single CPU Block on all the top line CPU/motherboard configs to date? And with possibly/ hopefully very minor modifications, be able to handle a couple of weird and unknown derivatives in the future. Possibly maybe something like this.......
how about the unlikely possibility of enabling your existing Athlon (through hole) block, to become such a beast....
just imagine.... Athlon, Xeon, P4, Opteron .... whatever....