I wasn't sure if this would be better in the cpu or ram category so I took the lazy mans route and put it in the first category i came to.
From what i've read it seems that when choosing ram amd's seem to favour better latency whereas intels favour ram speed. As I understand it this is due to amd's having the ram memory controller integrated into the cpu and intels use the fsb memory controlled.
Well the i7's have now integrated the memory controller into the cpu. Does this now mean that if you are using an i7 latency is a more important feature than speed?
Of course increasing the latency is more important only once the ram reaches half the speed of the uncore. As I understand it that is.
From what i've read it seems that when choosing ram amd's seem to favour better latency whereas intels favour ram speed. As I understand it this is due to amd's having the ram memory controller integrated into the cpu and intels use the fsb memory controlled.
Well the i7's have now integrated the memory controller into the cpu. Does this now mean that if you are using an i7 latency is a more important feature than speed?
Of course increasing the latency is more important only once the ram reaches half the speed of the uncore. As I understand it that is.