X-bit labs

Started by: alpha0ne | Date 07/10/07

Comments: 13 | Last Comment:  11/08/07

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1. Some overclockers are already hitting 2000MHz using DDR3 so it would have been nice if the reviewer could have managed ~ 1800MHz to compare against DDR2

There is only one DDR3 memory, which can work at 1600+ MHz. It is SuperTalent DDR3-1600, which is vapoware. Supertalent makes only several kits for friends. Ordinary users and reviewers cannot receive these kits :(

2. Should it be 1Gbit or 2 Gbit chip instead of Mbit?

Thanks, corrected

3. "The benchmark built into WinRAR archiving tool gives DDR3 SDRAM a break. Here we can finally see the advantages of increased DDR3-1333 SDRAM bandwidth. However, there are no real applications that would react the same way to increased bandwidth."

I thought Winrar was a real application? I guess I better stop using it as it must not be doing anything and go back to real applications like video games.

4. I think it is strange that overclocked 1.425MHz DD3 result is lower than 1.333MHz DDR3 result. May be Mainboard teawks can improve in future BIOS revisions. Or can it be the worse timnings?

5. on pg 2, the latency range table shows date value (5-Mar, 10-Jun); must be an Excel mistake! ;)

6. Pointless Report - Acheived Nothing

7. nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram

Says Bill Gates

8. "...and 2W less power in idle mode."
I see inversely in graphs, don't you?

9. WOW. I am looking to purchase a new mobo and this article definitely helped me...I will buy ddr2 motherboard and wait a few years to upgrade again....I just cant justify buying ddr3 at this time with what Ive just read

10. I will be more interest to see if the test using AMD CPU if there's one avaible. I suspect the Intel micro hits the limit of processing power.

Cheers

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