[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

[Warren Myers]

I also was under the impression that because AMD uses an integrated memory
controller, rather than Intel's off-chip method, that it should provide a
faster connection to memory (even if the bandWIDTH isn't any wider)

WMM

On 7/12/07, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Brian McCullough wrote:
>
> > I was under the impression that AMD had a rather different memory
> > architecture from Intel, substantially more efficient, including (
> > perhaps ) multiple paths to memory. ( dual-port memory? )
>
> www.novell.com/collateral/4622016/4622016.pdf
>
> says that the dual core opterons have no extra memory
> bandwidth than the single cores. I was at OLS about 2 weeks
> ago, and from what I heard, it's the same for all the
> multicore processors.
>
> Joe
>
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