X-bit labs

Started by: lightfoot__ | Date 04/25/08

Comments: 9 | Last Comment:  05/21/08

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1. # CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (LGA775, 3.16GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2, Wolfdale).

I think they mean 6mb L2.

2. mad!:) 1.8GHz wow!

3. And mine 2x2GB ddr2 that runs @750mhz (4-4-4-8 T1) on a crappy nvidia SLI650 chipset deliver 9780mb in everest test (same version).

DDR3 is way too exepnsive for performance it delivers. It barely outruns DDR2 800 and not to even mention DDR2 1066.

No need for DDR3 until Nehalem.

4. Yes but it is BECAUSE of Nehalem that you want DDR3. Quite likely you can change to Nehalem, keep the same memory, and get a performance boost because of the built in mem controller.

Buying DDR2 is buying something you will guaranteedly throw away a year from now, but DDR3 is something you can probably use in your next Nehalem system.

Nehalem standard bus is rumoured to be 1333, which would mean that a 1800 DDR3 would have a good amount of room for OC. Again, that's the rumour mill for you, but this leaves some food for thought :)

You missed my point. My DDR2 ir running WHOLE 1100Mhz SLOWER but still DDR3 only delivers 1300Mb per sek more bandwith !!
Inneficient is the word i belive.

5. tiny mistake
page 3 line 4 'ahs' should be changed to 'has'...
really good review

i think AMD has made a smarter choice to stick wid ddr2 until later when it ddr3 will be worth the price....

6. nick: Memory prices will fall when they see mass adoption. If AMD had joined the DDR3 club at the same time Intel did, DDR3 prices would have been lower now, since the demand would be higher. I don't think there is much to argue about that. There are countless other examples around (say Blue-Ray).

There is nothing wrong about DDD3, and it's surely more advanced than DDR2 - but it's simply bottlenecked by the current low FSB speed on Intel machines. And yes, it is true, DDR3 is future-proof!

But there is a little trick: even Nehalem won't support such high DDR3 speeds at first, and when it finally does, memory prices will be some magnitudes lower... So spending a bunch of cash right now for DDR3 above 1333 seems plainly stupid for me. Well, you may want to run your high-speed memory @ 1333Mhz when Nehalem arives, but then again - why spend the cash for it, anyway.

To sum the tings up - if you wanna be future proof, go for DDR3-1333 memory with decent timings (er.. wish you luck), it will do the job for a long time.

7. So are they saying that I couldn't run 8 gigs of this memory on my new Asus P5E3 Premium/WiFi-AP @n motherboard? They say this memory will only work on the black modules. So if that's the case how would I upgrade in the future to 8 gigs? I have deep pockets and want to run 8 gigs of this memory now.

8. My motherboard is the x48 version by the way.

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