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Asrock Pre-Announces AMP Memory by AMD.

Started by: MyK | Date 07/28/12 08:52:50 AM
Comments: 4 | Last Comment:  08/01/12 09:38:28 AM

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Asrock is the most admired mobo maker? Who did you survey?

Since testing shows little if any tangible gain with OC'ed RAM except on APUs, this is more marketing fluff than actual value.

When AMD actually has unified RAM access then this might mean something but for now it's mostly hype.
2 3 [Posted by: beenthere  | Date: 07/28/12 05:28:41 PM]
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To Anton's credit he did write "one of the most admired" and conveniently didn't include the number of different mobo makers we're supposed to admire. "One of" could as well be "least of many" then LOL. I'm here quite regularly and I frankly don't remember any such survey Anton refers to. Perhaps it wouldn't go amiss including a link to survey results?

And I think you're on the spot with the speed gains, that's only really relevant to APUs (bandwidth) and a lot less so to CPUs in general, especially given AMD's lengthy pipeline in their latest (and a few previous) offerings. Llano/Trinity CPU parts are choking on bandwidth as it is and integrated GPUs are quite irrelevant in systems running on Fatal1ty and similar "performance" mobos. Dunno what you mean with "unified RAM access" though? You're referring to upcoming DDR4's point-to-point (channel agnostic) topology? Cheers!
0 1 [Posted by: MyK  | Date: 07/29/12 01:41:03 AM]
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Extensive testing has shown that neither AMD nor Intel CPUs show tangible benefits from increased RAM frequency above ~1333 MHz. as the current DDR3 RAM in a typical desktop system is not a bottleneck.

Unified RAM access will appear soon in AMD APUs where both the CPU and GPU sections can access all available RAM, not just a dedicated block of RAM as is the current situation.

As far as Asrock being "one of the most admired" mobos, that appears to be marketing hype more than reality IME. Very few technically astute enthusiasts would chose Asrock over Asus or Gigabyte.
1 1 [Posted by: beenthere  | Date: 07/29/12 08:08:38 PM]
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There was a survey a few weeks ago regarding our prefered mobo maker, but I don't remember seeing Asrock in the top 5....
0 0 [Posted by: LGM123456789  | Date: 07/31/12 07:41:43 AM]
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