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[UpNDown]

j3pflynn, on Tom's article

If it is the broken memory controller chip, it may present a brief buying opportunity when Tom's excoriates it.

[Ixse]

Paul, I think Tom's evaluating the broken version because of this quote:

"However, it is clear that Socket AM2 is not just about performance, at least not until the arrival of DDR2-800 in the mainstream market. With current DDR2-667 memory, very little improvement should be expected as the integrated memory controller suffers from relaxed memory timings."

From what we heard about why a new stepping was needed and why AM2 was delayed till June was that the MC needed performance enhancements (source: Charlie/Inq). The above sounds to me like those improvements are not yet available in that engineering sample.

Regards,

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