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Discussion in 'News' started by btarunr, Apr 11, 2011.

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  1. Apr 12, 2011 at 12:23 PM #26

    MikeX

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    I bet Memory bandwidth is the bottle neck.
    If there's going to be 4 dimms, make it quad channel.
    If 2 make it dual. I know they will change it.
     
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  2. Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM #27
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    Memory bandwidth is the bottleneck for all x86 style computer systems. It is the nature of the design.

    Quad channel would A, require a crap load more pins and wouldn't be nearly as beneficial for a low to mid ranged processor class.

    And what are they going to change? These are guesses as to what AMD is working on. These are final configurations of released OEM chips. They may not come to America, but someone, somewhere is getting these processors in a computer.
     
  3. Apr 12, 2011 at 4:49 PM #28
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    Simply upping frequencies makes up for bus width, and this has been proven time and again.
     
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