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Alder Lake-S leaks

I will laugh my arse off if it is all hype like it was with Rocket Lake and the only reason we are getting a 3D stacked Zen 3 is because AMD are reacting to the hype.

Whoops...

These companies don't read wccftech, they already know exactly what each other is working on and where it's at.

vcache Zen3 is amd saying it's uncomfortable with zen3's perf per dollar and wants to maintain high margins till zen 4
 
Waiting for DDR5 always seems very strange.

Has there ever been any previous memory generation where being an early adopter had made sense from performance, or cost, or longevity point of view?

At least the DDR4 early adopters should all have been on HEDT quad channel so even if speeds were poor they had bandwidth.

This time with dual channel mainstream desktop leading, those who pay through the nose for what will quickly become the equivalent of what DRR4-2133 became to DDR4-3200 won't even have particularly high bandwidth.


Leaks so far have shown DDR5 running quad channel on the 12900k using z690 boards

and that's probably why there are no dual ddr4/5 mobos leaked so far - because it would require 6 ram slots right next to the cpu socket which is too much for consumer desktop boards outside of hedt or servers
 
I had assumed that all the talk of quad channel was just hardware info programs being confused with 64 bit DDR5 DIMMs actually being logical 2 X 32 bit a bit liked LDDR5 etc for soldered mobile stuff?

LGA 1700 is an increase of 500 pins compared to LGA 1200, but Intel quad channel has been over 2000 pins for ages now, so I don't think there are enough pins for quad channel.
 
New tech both memory and mobo with the option to upgrade memory later.

It's not strange at all.

I am waiting from DDR 5 after over 7 years of a DDR3 platform.

It annoyed me being on the last of the DDR3 platforms
So you're expecting first gen DDR5 motherboards and Alder Lake's first gen IMC to later be able to do something meaningful with the faster DDR5 memory which will eventually be released but which was unavailable and unspec'ed when AL-S and Z690 were released?

I'd be impressed if any of that turns out to be the case.
 
Leaks so far have shown DDR5 running quad channel on the 12900k using z690 boards

and that's probably why there are no dual ddr4/5 mobos leaked so far - because it would require 6 ram slots right next to the cpu socket which is too much for consumer desktop boards outside of hedt or servers

Its reported that its a bug in cpu-z showing quad channel all the leaks so far have stated its dual channel
 
Wonder will anyone advertise dual channel DDR5 as quad?

I guess dual channel DDR5 is 2 * (2 * 32 bit) but we are used to quad channel being 4 * (1 * 64 bit) and using four DIMMs.
 
Is that real or are you joking, I wouldn't be surprised though there are some right plums out there
Nope, he's deadly serious. I've seen similar listings for a 20GHz quad core, a 16 core 9900K with a Task Manager screenshot to prove it, and even a 10 core gaming PC based on a Kaveri APU.
 
So you're expecting first gen DDR5 motherboards and Alder Lake's first gen IMC to later be able to do something meaningful with the faster DDR5 memory which will eventually be released but which was unavailable and unspec'ed when AL-S and Z690 were released?

I'd be impressed if any of that turns out to be the case.

Well it's not going to be an option if you stay on a DDR4 platform, especially if you go for it when you could have waited to see what ALs brings
 
Lenovo has announced you can buy its prebuilt Legion desktop PCs featuring an RTX3080ti and 12900k on a z690 board and DDR5 memory on 29 October
 
...featuring an RTX3080ti and 12900k on a z690 board and DDR5...
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