Author: Wes NewellWes Newell Date: Jan 18, 2007 22:55
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:41:35 -0800, gwtx2 wrote:
> My question is what is the X2 AM2 specification which denotes the
> highest DDR2 memory speed which can be utilized? With the old Athlon XP
> chips, the FSB spec was commonly used to pair with the correct memory.
It supports the same bus speed as the XP line did, 200MHz. However that
200MHz using ddr2 has twice the bandwidth, so it's DDR2-800 where it was
is DDR-400. Of course like XP, it can be overclocked to whatever you can
get the controller to support. Confusion is what you end up with when they
erroneously use data rates as MHz. Unfortunately even ram manufactures
which used to list the real bus speeds of the ram have now started
advertising the data rates as the bus speed. It's gottten so bad now that
if you aren't familar with what they do, you'll be screwed trying to
design a system. I wonder what will happen in the distant future when some
one tries to actually build a board for one of todays cpu's and really
puts the clock speed at what they advertise today. Can you say meltdown.:-)
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