A64 and A64FX memory

[Retardo]

i read somewhere in here that some ppl have setups w/ A64 cpu and unregestered ram and that only unregis. ram goes w/ A64 and reg. ram goes w/ A64 FX.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_869_9460^9513,00.html

on that link...1st sentence it says A64 takes reg. ram. So they recommend reg. ram but u can still use unreg. ram? what bout A64 FX?

 

[jamestime88]

u use unregistered ram for the A64 and registered ram for the FX.

 

[burningrave101]

AMD was lazy and didn't go ahead and change the core of the FX-51 so it could use unbuffered DIMM's. The FX-51 is really just an Opteron processor with two of its three Hyper Transport links disabled and they both use registered RAM. Registered RAM is only needed in server environments as it spends an extra clock cycle checking the memory for errors which isn't needed in a desktop but could be life and death in a server.