AMD’s Socket AM2 let down by DDR2
Those that already have samples of AMD’s upcoming Socket AM2 processor are saying that the change over to DDR2 memory is nothing toget all worked up about. We have heard this from numerous sources over the past couple weeks and today The Inq. take a jab at it.
800MHz DDR 2 may work at CL4 ms, but faster implementations of DDR1 can work at CL 2ms latencies, at 400MHz. This is a trade-off that you simply have to accept. This lands AMD a problem. By moving to DDR 2 800 with an Athlon AM2 CPU, you won?t see a pants-busting performance boost. Stuff will run faster, but up to roughly five percent faster not much more than that. Funnily enough, the price of DDR 2 should be three to five percent higher than DDR 1 at launch time, so you can easily work out the price of performance.
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