Thursday, December 29, 2011

Interconnection dilemma: should Socket 2011 successor get one more QPI to spare? - VR-Zone


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Interconnection dilemma: should Socket 2011 successor get one more QPI to spare?
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The full-blooded Socket 2011 CPUs have two QPI links on each socket, to connect either doubly to another CPU, or each connect to one neighbouring processor. With so many pins available, is there use for, say, one more QPI channel? Yes! ...