Added to the directory: Mon, 06 Oct, 2003. Source: Hexus.
Quote:Yet hope is very much at hand. The media circus has been circulating around the 940-pin dual memory channel AMD64 FX-51 CPU. AMD, in its wisdom, has not positioned the FX-xx line as the natural successor to the consumer-level Barton CPU. No, that job is left for another 32/64-bit hybrid that takes many of the qualities from the Opteron / FX and amalgamates them into a package that's sure to whet the appetites of enthusiasts and power freaks on a relative budget. If the FX-51 is the Sledgehammer, the 754-pin variety is the Clawhammer. The major difference lies in the way the memory controller communicates with the DRAM. You see, while the Sledgehammer uses dual 64-bit channels linked up to ECC RAM, the Clawhammer forgoes a channel and makes use of regular unbuffered DRAM. Less bandwidth but more DRAM compatibility, it seems. Let's try to get to the bottom of the confusing Hammer family.
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