Hammer will support DDRII

[Rectalfier]

EBNS has reported that Hammer will support DDRII around the release of DDRII.

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[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: EBNS.com
AMD confirms that Hammer's on-die memory controller now supports only DDR-I, and that DDR-II will require a new Hammer chip design, at least for the memory portion. But the company claimed this was no big deal.

The question is... IS is a big deal? To the workstation customers? To the enthusiasts?

 

[imgod2u]

To the corporate market, this isn't a big deal. To the enthusiaste market, oh boy is this a big deal. People who buy in th enthusiaste market need a good upgrade path. Think of all the commotion over Intel's 473-pin P4's and the later 478-pin P4's. Intel gains a lotta market from the OEM market, which this kinda thing isn't a big deal with, but AMD almost solely relies on both the enthusiaste and budget markets.

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: imgod2u
To the corporate market, this isn't a big deal. To the enthusiaste market, oh boy is this a big deal. People who buy in th enthusiaste market need a good upgrade path. Think of all the commotion over Intel's 473-pin P4's and the later 478-pin P4's. Intel gains a lotta market from the OEM market, which this kinda thing isn't a big deal with, but AMD almost solely relies on both the enthusiaste and budget markets.

423 pin*. There was little to no commotion over the 423 pin P4. When Intel released their DDR chipset and the Northwood is when people started to consider the P4 as a viable switch. It's not really THAT big of a deal either, everyone knows it would have been foolish for AMD not to incorporate DDRII early on. This merely insures the Hammers future.

 

[human2k]

Hopefully hammer wont be like Parhelia.............all hype..........no performance😉..............anyone have benchmarks at all on the hammer?

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: bdog
It's not really THAT big of a deal either, everyone knows it would have been foolish for AMD not to incorporate DDRII early on. This merely insures the Hammers future.

The initial Hammers will only support DDR333. It won't be until Q4 '03 where DDR-II support will be implimented.

Meaning that if you buy a Hammer in Q2, then you'll have to replace that CPU in Q4 to get DDR-II support.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: human2k
Hopefully hammer wont be like Parhelia.............all hype..........no performance😉..............anyone have benchmarks at all on the hammer?

I have little doubt that Hammer will perform quite well. A month or two ago, some obscure European site posted some alleged Quake3 benchmarks on a Hammer running at 800mhz... But they are hardly confirmed as real.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Wingznut PEZ

Originally posted by: human2k
Hopefully hammer wont be like Parhelia.............all hype..........no performance😉..............anyone have benchmarks at all on the hammer?

I have little doubt that Hammer will perform quite well. A month or two ago, some obscure European site posted some alleged Quake3 benchmarks on a Hammer running at 800mhz... But they are hardly confirmed as real.

my eyes decieve me here 😉

 

[Wingznut]

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[Adul]

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