DuronBurgerMan
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- Mar 13, 2017
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To be perfectly honest, I do
Or at least it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
AMD still operates on a shoe string budget and they're juicing the existing designs all of their worth, as they should. However, time to time they go too far with doing so, in my opinion.
I got to thinking about this, and I wonder if refresh X399 boards will allow for 8-channel instead of 4-channel. And if AMD is preserving backward compatibility by allowing the extra two dies' memory controllers to be disabled on older X399 boards to meet a 4-channel configuration. Also, wouldn't be a problem for 16 core or less TR2s, as I understand those will still be 2-die, not 4-die like the 24 and 32 core variants.
That would make more sense. If the socket can handle it, and the package can handle it - it would just be a board refresh.