KingCody
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AMD plans to bring a system into the consumer enthusiast market for AM2. they refer to it as "4x4".
at first it will start out as a "dually", which will simply have two AM2 sockets, and two pci-express graphics slots.
down the road it will have a different combination of AM2 sockets/specialty sockets/HTX slots (this will depend on licensing and third party support). these sockets (or slots) will all share a large pool of DDR2.
a quad socket (or HTX slot) system could utilize 1. CPU/CPU/GPU/GPU, 2. CPU/CPU/GPU/PPU, or 3. CPU/GPU/GPU/PPU. in any configuration they would all be connected together through a super fast, high bandwidth, low latency cHT (coherent hypertransport) link.
a cHT linkage is faster than any PCI-E interface, even a possible (but still theoretical) PCI-Ex32!!
and to top it off. if AMD ends up buying ATI, you will see this all happen even faster, and at comparable prices with high end PCI-E systems, while outperforming them.
EDIT: here is a link to a good article about it if you want some more info
at first it will start out as a "dually", which will simply have two AM2 sockets, and two pci-express graphics slots.
down the road it will have a different combination of AM2 sockets/specialty sockets/HTX slots (this will depend on licensing and third party support). these sockets (or slots) will all share a large pool of DDR2.
a quad socket (or HTX slot) system could utilize 1. CPU/CPU/GPU/GPU, 2. CPU/CPU/GPU/PPU, or 3. CPU/GPU/GPU/PPU. in any configuration they would all be connected together through a super fast, high bandwidth, low latency cHT (coherent hypertransport) link.
a cHT linkage is faster than any PCI-E interface, even a possible (but still theoretical) PCI-Ex32!!
and to top it off. if AMD ends up buying ATI, you will see this all happen even faster, and at comparable prices with high end PCI-E systems, while outperforming them.
EDIT: here is a link to a good article about it if you want some more info
