DDR3

I know the ddr3 one costs a bomb because its ddr3 and low volume....but £176 for the ddr2 version of that board is having a laugh IMO. This is the mainstream intel chipset, god knows what the board prices will be like with the enthusiast X38 chipset heh. I paid £125 for my P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP over 8 months ago, id love to know what makes these boards special enough for the extra £50, they dont appear to do anything of note other than they likely support Penryn.
 
Last I heard there were problems with DDR 3 (mainly Latency if I read correctally, same as DDR 2 had) and it had been delayed for a few more months. Or has this been fixed?
 
milkinc13 said:
Last I heard there were problems with DDR 3 (mainly Latency if I read correctally, same as DDR 2 had) and it had been delayed for a few more months. Or has this been fixed?
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Its latencies aren't great, but the increased frequency should make up for it.
 
That heatpiping is crazy :D

The DDR3 latency will drop quite quick I expect, going by DDR2.
 
The 1950XTX uses GDDR 4.

The new R600 uses it too i think, but showed that it didnt make that much of a difference over the GDDR 3. Shame really
 
There's not a whole lot of difference between DDR revisions when run at the same clock frequency other than the voltage. The main difference is the potential. Samsung have shown GDDR4 working up to 2.4GHz and claim within a few years they'll have it running much faster. This is something harder to do on higher voltage DDR3 and DDR2 chips.
 
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