A press briefing held for British hardware hacks by memory company Corsair has cast some doubts on the performance of the future Athlon 64 microprocessor.
Company officials told the journalists that registered memory modules don't overclock that well on the AMD64 platform, and as the Athlon 64 is aimed at enthusiasts, that's a bit of the paradox. And the same officials claimed that increased performance of the Athlon 64, estimated by some to be 30% greater for 32-bits than competing X86 chips, is probably rather optimistic.
The firm also appears to think that it might be harder than expected to clock the Athlon 64 at 2GHz, although of course an Opteron at that speed was released recently.
Company officials told the journalists that registered memory modules don't overclock that well on the AMD64 platform, and as the Athlon 64 is aimed at enthusiasts, that's a bit of the paradox. And the same officials claimed that increased performance of the Athlon 64, estimated by some to be 30% greater for 32-bits than competing X86 chips, is probably rather optimistic.
The firm also appears to think that it might be harder than expected to clock the Athlon 64 at 2GHz, although of course an Opteron at that speed was released recently.
