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I think you're right on. Back when the first athlons came out quad pumping was too far out to think about. And now that opeteron has a built in mem controller, the FSB isn't so important anymore.They can do it but it would require a complete redesign of their processors and motherboards. Plus they don't really need to right now and all it does in introduce added expense. (flame away, I know it's gonna come)
Originally posted by: Megatomic
Perhaps it's a limitation of the Alpha EV-6 bus? Same reason why they won't officially push the FSB above 400MHz IIRC.