Will there be any 1mb cache Socket 939 Athlon 64 's ?

[BEIF]

Hi all

Will there be any 1mb cache Socket 939 Athlon 64 's ?

or

will they all be only 512k cache ?

Ben

 

[myocardia]

If there are, it will only be one of the ones that you can't afford anyway, like the FX's.

 

[PliotronX]

Originally posted by: myocardia
If there are, it will only be one of the ones that you can't afford anyway, like the FX's.

Yup, because AMD doesn't want to cannibalize their Opteron sales

Lucky for us, it doesn't boost performance enough to warrant an FX's pricetag Dual channel is all us average Joes want.

 

[Jeff7181]

In the nForce3 250 preview, it says that the 250 Ultra chipset can be used with socket 754, which means, dual channel RAM and all the other bells and whistles... AND cheap 1 MB cache processors Keep your fingers crossed that some manufacturer decides to do this.

 

[PliotronX]

But that means the ondie memory controller will be bypassed and so in turn the performance negates the extra cache and a lot of the dual channel potential =\

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: PliotronX
But that means the ondie memory controller will be bypassed and so in turn the performance negates the extra cache and a lot of the dual channel potential =\

Where did you get that?

 

[charloscarlies]

In the nForce3 250 preview, it says that the 250 Ultra chipset can be used with socket 754, which means, dual channel RAM and all the other bells and whistles... AND cheap 1 MB cache processors Keep your fingers crossed that some manufacturer decides to do this.

I only wish. They do have an on die mem controller, so us 754 owners are pretty much SOL. The only benefits we might see of nf3 250 is (hopefully) a working pci/agp lock.

 

[PliotronX]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: PliotronX
But that means the ondie memory controller will be bypassed and so in turn the performance negates the extra cache and a lot of the dual channel potential =\

Where did you get that?

The socket 754 chips' ondie controllers only support single channel hence the 185-pin less socket (lines up nicely with the 184-pins of DDR memory doesn't it?). So the controller in the nForce 250's northbridge is used for dual channel, and the latency benefits of the ondie controller vanish. It was discussed across many articles before the release of K8 the ability to utilize an offdie controller for memory versatility (with the impending DDR-2 onslaught and all).