DDR2-1000
There is a subtle, but clear shift in the Memory manufacturers that we saw from standard DDR to high-speed DDR2. Now that roadmaps from AMD are showing a move to DDR2 early in 2006, the big news and new speed bumps seemed to be coming in the DDR2 arena.
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Corsair had a very splashy display of an Asus 955x machine running their latest XPert PC2-8000 DDR2 (DDR2-1000) in their suite.
The XPert line continues and refines the LED information display that was first introduced by Corsair at CES in January.
This is Corsair's first official DDR2-1000 memory. AnandTech reached DDR1066 with this same Corsair memory/Asus combination when the Asus P5WD2 Premium was first introduced, so we know that Corsair performs very well on this outstanding Asus 955x motherboard.
OCZ did not have an official suite at Computex, but they were also showing a DDR2-1000 memory in meetings with the media.
OCZ PC2-8000 (DDR2-1000) was introduced the week before Comdex and many of the larger review sites already have samples of the PC2-8000 modules for evaluation.
Thus far the improvements in performance from high-speed DDR2 have been pretty small on the Intel chipsets. We are hoping DDR2 coupled with the on-processor memory controller of the Athlon 64 will be a different animal.
Geil was showing their latest DDR2 running at DDR2-1066 speed, with an error-free demo cycling Memtest-86.
As we saw in our first tests of the new Intel 955x, a very few Micron modules can reach DDR2-1066, but the percentage that can hit DDR2-1066 from current production is likely to be extremely small. Very few can be binned to operate with stability at that speed. We have also shown in the past that single-sided DIMMs, like 256MB DIMMs, overclock better in almost every case than double-sided DIMMs like the more often used DDR512MB DIMMs. Geil's DDR2 performance was helped by demonstrating with single-sided DDR2 modules.
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Eug - Saturday, June 11, 2005 - link
Thanks, I see.So carbon is a good electrical insulator, but also a good thermal conductor.
Learn something new every day.
xsilver - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
good news to hear that abit is out of troublebut what the hell is going on with their guru clock?
looks ugly as hell
the 5.25" one in an older article (with the bios nuke button) was nice but not this new external one
KristopherKubicki - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
Correct about the diamonds.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
However, such little carbon is really not going to affect the thermals of the system. Besides, even if it transfers heat well, there still has to be surface area of the heat to dissapate.
Kristopher
futuristicmonkey - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
#6No. Carbon is an excellent conductor of heat. It's the reason why diamond is the best conductor of heat in the world - it is very densely-packed carbon..or something like that.
Eug - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
Wouldn't the carbon fibre act as an insulator?monsoon - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
well, personally i fancy the corsair led RAMs, but even MORE Important to me is the last pace MINI PC......i'm currently looking for a SILENT FANLESS PC; should be reasonably powered, can be a MINI PC, better if it has at least a 3 5'25" slots space so that i can put a 5 SATA bloc on it.
anybody able to give directions ?
=)
THANKS
Furen - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
500mhz@1w, windows ce... sounds awfully like the craptastic AMD PIC. Though I must admit, it looks a lot more interesting in a decent-looking boxryanv12 - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
that red foxconn mini-system is an eyesore.plewis00 - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
How comes even though the Geil RAM is running at DDR2-1066, it's still only through-putting 2896MB/s - pretty low isn't it for such fast RAM (I'm aware of the timings, but still)...Souka - Friday, June 10, 2005 - link
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