Although desktop dual-core processors from AMD are on the horizon, engineers there are still hard at work refining their single-core processor designs. The latest revision to the Athlon 64 core, internally code named "Venice", recently made it way onto the mass market, carrying a "Rev. E" moniker. With the Venice core, AMD has integrated SSE3 multimedia instruction sets into the Athlon 64, and have made some additions and enhancements to the integrated memory controller as well. The changes to the Integrated Memory controller include:
·_Mismatched DIMM support (ability to configure and use different size DIMMs on the same channel)
·_Improved memory mapping (more efficient use of memory space)
·_Improved memory loading (can fully populating the memory with double-bank DIMMs with no slow down)
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Review:
Hothardware
May 2, 2005, 12:00 PM
