TwinMOS TwiSTER PC2-6400 Review

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by Capper

there is no DDR3...officially yet

Unofficially what have you heard?

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by jokerswild

Unofficially what have you heard?

LOL

Originally Posted by Wikipedia: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM

DDR3 SDRAM][/url]]DDR3, likely to be called DDR3 SDRAM (Double Data Rate Three Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory), is the name of the new DDR memory standard that is being developed as the successor to DDR2 SDRAM.

The memory comes with a promise of a power consumption reduction of 40% compared to current commercial DDR2 modules, due to DDR3's 90nm fabrication technology, allowing for lower operating currents and voltages (1.5 V, compared to DDR2's 1.8 V or DDR's 2.5 V). "Dual-gate" transistors will be used to reduce leakage of current.

DDR3's prefetch buffer width is 8 bit, whereas DDR2's is 4 bit, and DDR's is 2 bit.

Theoretically, these modules could transfer data at the effective clockrate of 400-800 MHz (for a single clock bandwidth of 800-1600 MHz), compared to DDR2's current range of 200-533 MHz (400-1066 MHz) or DDR's range of 100-300 MHz (200-600 MHz). To date, such bandwidth requirements have been mainly on the graphics market, where vast transfer of information between framebuffers is required.

Prototypes were announced in early 2005, while the DDR3 specification is expected to be publicly available in mid-2006. Supposedly, Intel has preliminarily announced that they expect to be able to offer support for it near the end of 2007. AMD's roadmap indicates their own adoption of DDR3 to come in 2008.

The GDDR3 memory, with a similar name but an entirely dissimilar technology, has been in use for several years in high-end graphic cards such as ones from NVIDIA or ATI Technologies, and as main system memory on the Xbox 360. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "DDR3".

[Jokerswild]

Sounds like it would be good for laptops also.

[gvblake22]

Great review, looks to be a decent memory kit (as would be expected from most any DDR2-800 kit). Always interesting to see the performance advantages of higher speed over tighter timings. Thanks for the writeup Bo! :thup: