Originally Posted by mdzcpa
I think its a great idea they did that....generally speaking. Obviously overclocking is not something AMD would have, or should have, considered in the design. From a pure performance standpoint, it works great clock for clock.
In addition, there are upsides. For example, when you are cooling the CPU you are cooling the mem controller as well. I see a lot of great mem speeds coming from phase change cooling.
Also, there was never a gaurantee that you got a good mem controller when it was in the chipset either.
