Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[Lightman]

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Lightman> Asynchronous refers to a cache design. AFAIK, K8 also uses an asynch L2.

I'm confused...
Asynchronous for me means clocked differently than core, but in K8 L2 cache is clocked @ core speeds.
Maybe it might be clocked with different speeds like caches from first K7 Slot CPUs??

Anyone to enlighten me...

EDIT:
After 20 minutes of thinking and digging....

Look at this and compare to QC screen:


On my machine Everest 4.xxx.xxx is showing L2 cahce as 'Full speed'.
This lead me to theory that L2 cache in K8 really is asynchronous and AMD can change it's multiplier. This also can answer why Everest picture of QC part is showing L2 cache as Asynchronous... simply it's not Full speed, it's clocked at different than 1.6GHz clock (probably 1/2 or 2/3 of core speed).

This theory is in conjunction with what Groo and some other people was saying... Demoed K10 is cripped... It's not fully working part!