Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
So on an AM3 system there are three things that could be called NB, the IMC, the uncore and the PCIe part of the chipset?
Usually the confusion tends to be about the chipset or the IMC, but dragging the uncore to the mix is just unnecessary.
The uncore has nothing to do with traditional NB-functions.
I would like to use uncore as umbrella term for everything outside of the CPUcore (or module):
HTr, IMC, L3, XBAR.
Currently it seems that
NB = XBAR + HTr (and in the future in the Llano case probably PCIe)

because everything else is mentioned separately.

Imo it is not important to mention the IMC or HT seperately, every CPU has it nowadays, be it triple channel and QPI for intel or dual channel and Hypertransport for AMD. No use to make a difference here and also no use in mentioning the IMC explicitly but not mentioning Hypertransport by hiding it with the NB term.

AMD should not invent new namimgs, they just should give proper statements, like in case with the AM3 compatibility ;-)

Life would be much easier, haha