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To: j3pflynn who wrote (193925)	4/15/2006 2:58:17 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: eracer - I'm thinking more like the "bandwidth efficiency" is going to go up as the core runs faster; it just doesn't seem to be externally hungry enough yet to use it up. I have little reason to believe AMD can't design an efficient DDR2 controller(they did wonderfully with DDR1), so I'd have to consider what else could be the case. Although, depending on what happens with K8L(and when), it may be a moot point. Yes, bandwidth efficiency should improve as the core speed increases. The AM2 sample Anandtech tested is no exception. The overclocked memory/core tests at 10x250 showed a decent increase moving from 5516 MB/s at stock speed (assumed to be 2GHz but is not verified) to 6832 MB/s at 2.5GHz in Sandra. At 2.8GHz it would probably top 7500 MB/s.