Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
ok so because AM2 is duel channel, we had to make AM3 duel channel, and now AM3+ is also going to only be duel channel, thats pretty sucky.

i understand backwords compatible is nice and all, but BD being limited because of the socket used by athlon x2s sounds like its going to hurt more than help. those 2 extra channels could be 5-10% more IPC

i hope they split BD across 2 sockets, current and quad channel, let us decide if we want a 300$ cpu put into a 2 year old motherboard, or buy a new mobo and cpu at the same time for that extra perf

perhaps 2%???
extra memory bandwidth don't boost IPC a lot
since L1 and L2 cache is fast enough to feed the processing units.
compare i5 and i7 and you will see if triple channel is a lot more faster than double channel