VIA KT600--Still no Dual Channel!!!!

Zash

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• Jul 7, 2003

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Okay, I found this article the other day and I found it intriguing. I'm PO'd at VIA because even with their new KT600 Chipset, they aren't supporting Dual Channel DDR.
Anandtech KT600 Review

 

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• Jul 7, 2003

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The front side bus (400MHz) of the latest Athlons matches perfectly the memory bandwidth from DDR400. The Pentium 4 needs dual channel memory. The Athlon does not.

 

Shade00

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• Jul 7, 2003

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Strange place to put a thread about an AMD chipset...

JohnMK is right, though. Dual channel memory is pretty pointless on AMDs with a DDR bus. Athlons already get enough bandwidth with 1:1 DDR.

 

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Yep dual channel exceeds the EV6 bus - doesn't do any good.