[Gllug] RAM in Intel boxes is very power hungry

[Mike Brodbelt]

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Claim made on irc. Discuss.

Accurate. Xeons use FBDIMMs, which are more power hungry than the 
modules used by Opterons (DDR). The major difference is that the AMD 
chips have the memory controller on die, the current generation Xeons 
don't. It's notable that Intel have changed this approach now - their 
new Nehalem microarchitecture uses an on-die memory controller.

Mike

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