Leggete che cosa ne pensa la Corsair (famosissimo produttore americano di memorie) riguardo alle prestazioni dell'athlon 64
A PRESS BRIEFING held for British hardware hacks by memory company Corsair has cast some doubts on the performance of the future Athlon 64 microprocessor.
Company officials told the journalists that registered memory modules don't overclock that well on the AMD64 platform, and as the Athlon 64 is aimed at enthusiasts, that's a bit of the paradox.
And the same officials claimed that increased performance of the Athlon 64, estimated by some to be 30% greater for 32-bits than competing X86 chips, is probably rather optimistic.
The firm also appears to think that it might be harder than expected to clock the Athlon 64 at 2GHz, although of course an Opteron at that speed was released recently.
It also confirmed that the difference between the 940 and the 939 pin designs of the future chips are, as first reported by AMD Zone, to disable symmetric multiprocessing on the desktop version.
As for future DDR 2 technology, which as we've written before forms the basis of desktop chipsets planned by Intel, that's not likely to give much of a bandwidth boost to Pentium 4 based machines, Corsair reckons. The change apparently is just a way for Intel to differentiate itself from the competition.
Fonte: The Inquirer
Che Intel abbia pagato Corsair per affermare queste cose???
