Author Topic: Quad Band memory : the cheap mans dream (Read 2741 times)

TrinireturnofGamez · « **on:** July 11, 2004, 03:21:29 PM »

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial...8_glance_7.html

by using a set of standard DDR chips split into 2 seperate parts which send bursts of data in seperate turns , RAM manufacturers can get rid of stockpiles of old DDR by using this technology . It can be made compatible with standard DDR and DDR2 slots , making for a very very large market.

It effectively doubles the mem bandwidth of DDR1, like DDR2 , but by using OLDER chips.... PC2100 DDR doubles from 2.1 to 4.2 GB/s in SINGLE channel mode, with PC3200 you would get 6.4 gb/s in SINGLE channel and 12.6 GB/S in dual. Though i seriously doubt even the Nforce II and KT880 chipsets will be able to handle this kind of bandwidth even at max o/c .

And since this is using ancient stockpiles of chips this WILL be cheaper than DDR II and may even rival standard DDRI

Carigamers · « **on:** July 11, 2004, 03:21:29 PM »

coldstorm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2004, 06:47:53 PM »

only boards that might be able to handle the increase would be the athlon 64 board becuase of the integrate memory controller.

TrinireturnofGamez · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2004, 07:24:45 PM »

and similar server class chips like the opteron and xeon...

coldstorm · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2004, 07:43:56 PM »

xeons don't have intergrated memory controllers

unimatrix001 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2004, 09:52:51 PM »

i have a [dual] xeon setup using pc2700 ram and it runnin nice nice

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2004, 09:52:51 PM »

strongton · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2004, 10:41:28 PM »

xeons, what a waste of money

coldstorm · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2004, 12:28:37 AM »

even xeon can't handle that extra bandwidth but xeon L3 2 mb cache does come in useful

TrinireturnofGamez · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2004, 02:24:41 AM »

by my calculation... it would take a 1066mhz FSB Xeon to handle about 8GB/S of bandwidth.... thats just QDR usin DDR2100 chips in dual channel.
QDR at 4.2 gb/s by itself will push the 533mhz Xeon to its limits and occasionally swamp it with data .

strongton · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2004, 11:42:36 PM »

horse how yuh calculate that

TrinireturnofGamez · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2004, 01:48:23 PM »

intel had a press release stating that their 533FSB chips will be able to handle up to 4 GB/s of mem bandwidth .... 2x 533=1066

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