Another money quote from Raystonn from Sep. 2001, regarding the Athlon64's on die memory controller:
"I can only tell you a couple of things regarding that design at the moment. That processor will be completely locked into whatever memory type that controller uses. Additionally, you will no longer be able to control the FSB speed from the motherboard's BIOS. It will be controlled by AMD. You can say goodbye to one of the major methods of overclocking. Overclocking of the memory system will be entirely impossible. Should AMD decide to lock the multiplier on its processors as well, you will be unable to overclock at all. This would be a dark day for the hardware enthusiast scene."
I think he was slightly wrong about that.
And here's one from the same thread about AMD having to use RDRAM in the future:
"It is inevitable that within 5 years they will be forced to create a DRDRAM chipset. Looking at the roadmaps for DRDRAM and SDRAM (including DDR, QDR, DDR-II, etc.), all forms of SDRAM will have been far surpassed by then. I doubt they have any plans to die off like Cyrix."
Here's the <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=265855#265855" target="_new">thread</A> for you or anyone else who is interested.
I guess I shouldn't pick on Raystonn so much, but there were a lot of people who worshipped everything he said a few years ago. Just goes to show that even the smartest, most informed people can't really predict what's going to happen a couple of years down the road.
<i>Money talks. Mine always likes to say "goodbye."
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