AMD 4x4 to support normal X2 CPUs?

K404

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Taken from TheInq report:

"Basically, the chips will be standard A64 X2s with at least 1 ccHT link not turned off so they can talk. If there is any special sauce, AMD did not talk about it , and I would not expect any earth-shattering jumps in performance on single- or low-threaded games. AMD also said the concept will carry over to eight cores, two quad-core chips, but they won't be called 8X4."

Source: http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=33268

Thats a reporter from The Inquirer, and his words, not an official AMD line. Assuming he was at the meeting, and saw what was shown with his own eyes...it might actually be true?

K
 
SUUUURREEE Someone mentioned that the "normal" AM2 CPU's have an "extra" HT link. Pretty sure they said they'd seen it on some die snapshots. If this is the case then could well be that every CPU's supported.

2 AM2 3800's would be a steal, under the price of a 6600 for quad core etc... Be interesting to see if the boards support/use something similar to NUMA too, could lead to some insane BW figures etc :D:D
 
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