If i buy a Kentsfield for my desktop pc i will need FB-DIMM ot DDR2 memory?
Kentsfield will support*** FP, EDO, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, XDR, GDDR, Rambus, any type of memory you care for.....
*** Because memory support has NOTHING to do with the CPU on Intel products, it's all in the northbridge.
no Kentsfield will not support any kind of memory.The northbridge on the mainboards for Kentsfield will support DDR2, just becouse Core2 is optimized to work with DDR2-like bandwidth and latency.
Would you argue that the P4 can only support Rambus memory, as the first chipsets released for it only supported Rambus?
If you add more bandwidth or/and lower the latency, you will reach a level when the CPU will get all the needed cache blocks on time and adding more RAM bandwidth will result with no CPU performance boost. The modern CPUs have so many techniques to keep the pipeline full while it waits cache blocks. You will reach the level when lower RAM latency will result with no peformance boost. Core2 Duo has no benefit of DDR2 with DDR-like latency(CL2 2-2-2 1). It might have benefit from more bandwidth but the FSB is bottleneching it. Thats why it has large shared L2 cache, it has been designed to use DDR2.
:roll: whatever you say, cool.....go buy Core2 Duo and mainboard with EDO RAM.