Yup, because AMD doesn't want to cannibalize their Opteron salesOriginally posted by: myocardia
If there are, it will only be one of the ones that you can't afford anyway, like the FX's.
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 =\
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.
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).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?