Socket M2 is dead welcome AM2

[kamranziadar]

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[pctwo]

is M2 trademarked by BMW or Benz or somebody? otherwise AMD marketing is retarded. people will end up pronouncing it M-2 anyway, but yeah AM2 is so much cooler than M2. NOT!!

 

[Avalon]

I'm interested in seeing what DDR2 will do for the platform.

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: Avalon
I'm interested in seeing what DDR2 will do for the platform.

Me too. Actually, I'm more interested in the price of DDR2 Ram.

 

[Hacp]

DDR2 ram is pretty cheap right now, but demand might drive prices up. As for what DDR2 will do for the platform, well I would think that it would improve performance by 3-5%. If you currently have a 2.8GHZ Opteron 165 with your TCCD running at DDR600, then there will be very little reason to upgrade to AM2 I beleive.

 

[Unkno]

DDR2 performance won't be much of a difference...

 

[Allio]

Wow, a 333 HTT.

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: Allio
Wow, a 333 HTT.

Yea, 3 words for you...."improved memory controller"(at least I hope)

More ticks upwards to OC.....consider getting to 2.8Ghz on an 3200+ venice.....you'd have to up the HTT to 280(assuming 10X multi), thats 80 ticks up on the HTT, which is pretty high for most of us on stock or aftermarket air cooling...

Now assume a similarly clocked M2 starting at 2.0Ghz(333x6)...to get to 2.8 you'd have to to tick the HTT up 133....up to 466 :shocked: :shocked:

Of course none of us knows how these puppies overclock and how the memory controller is tweaked around....

One last thing to consider tho....whatever proc is running with the 7x multi might be perfect for OCing as 400HTT=2.8Ghz which is only 66 ticks upwards

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: Hacp
DDR2 ram is pretty cheap right now, but demand might drive prices up. As for what DDR2 will do for the platform, well I would think that it would improve performance by 3-5%. If you currently have a 2.8GHZ Opteron 165 with your TCCD running at DDR600, then there will be very little reason to upgrade to AM2 I beleive.

I wonder if it will make more of a difference in dual core systems. The two cores should put bigger demands on memory bandwidth shouldn't it?

 

[Furen]

Yes, dual-core should see a good performance increase in heavy multitasking. Multipliers should come in wholes and halves, which is a change from the current K8s (they do support half multiplier from the CG revision upwards, I think, but most motherboards just don't mess with them). I'd expect that there will be chipsets and motherboards that can run at insane HTT speeds eventually and I would count on at least one decently-overclocking chipset at launch.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: Allio
Wow, a 333 HTT.

Yea, 3 words for you...."improved memory controller"(at least I hope)

More ticks upwards to OC.....consider getting to 2.8Ghz on an 3200+ venice.....you'd have to up the HTT to 280(assuming 10X multi), thats 80 ticks up on the HTT, which is pretty high for most of us on stock or aftermarket air cooling...

Now assume a similarly clocked M2 starting at 2.0Ghz(333x6)...to get to 2.8 you'd have to to tick the HTT up 133....up to 466 :shocked: :shocked:

Of course none of us knows how these puppies overclock and how the memory controller is tweaked around....

One last thing to consider tho....whatever proc is running with the 7x multi might be perfect for OCing as 400HTT=2.8Ghz which is only 66 ticks upwards

Yeah, this is what I'm really interested in. I wonder how easy it will be to hit 400HTT+ on initial AM2 chipsets?