Athlon 64 in short-term memory loss shocker

[traviss187]

http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=11713
kinda a funny thing to forget to mention, but last time I tried to buy ECC memory it was damn expensive

but defianatly won't help amd ship more units prior to prescotts release

 

[pitsi]

There is something you all have to realise (at least that's the way I see it). Athlon FX is something like P4 Extreme Edition. Both Intel and AMD are releasing these two CPUs, just to be able to say that "we have the fastest microprocessor". Their puprpose is not to sell a lot of those anyway. Especially AMD, has released the Athlon FX (940pin) taking ECC memory (which is basically the Opteron), until they release their actual desktop version of Athlon FX (939pin ... taking regular DDR400 memory). The 940pin is actually their chance to win the performance crown from Intel, and not a CPU that will be sold widely to consumers.

 

[speeduk]

And the normal ddr version of the fx (not sucky ecc) will perform a lot better than the current fx. When you see the benches of the 3200xp (single channel) and FX51 (dual channel ECC) you will see that the performance difference in 3dmark2001 and most games is only slight because of the low latencies that normal memory uses.

<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7000747" target="_new"> 3D-2001 </A>
<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1284380" target="_new"> 3D-03 </A>
<font color=red> 120% overclocker </font color=red> (cheapskate)

 

[traviss187]

i understand that, it just seems like a fairly large error not to anticipate the need for the ECC memory in the systems, it's like producing a car and tell firestone you changed the wheel size and they need to produce a new tire at the same time you release the car
it just seems to be a stupid mistake, which they can't afford to make right now.