sounds interesting, but it seems a good portion of the original concept was to make a cheap memory type, at least as far as the interface goes...
16bit pathway @ 400mhz, ok, yea, fast enough I suppose, the 64bit pathway may help on some of the latency issues, bandwidth should go through the roof, but will this not bring the price that much higher?
not to mention the fact that the memory will be as much a pain as the CPU to upgrade soon, PC2400, PC2700 and the new RDRAM will require new motherboards, correct? and there's no end to the upgrades in sight.
it seems like now that we should be able to upgrade processors (AMD to 2ghz and Northwood hopefully) by just dropping in a new CPU, but the memory system is going to be substandard within a few months.
any word on the stopping point of DDR or RDRAM to level out?
PC100/133 has been a fairly constant standard for at least 4? years now?
we're going to see higher prices in RAM again soon simply because of all the different varieties of it out there, PC100/133 has been cheap because primarily its all thats been produced for years, now its being replaced by new types that change every few months.
any comments ladies and gents?
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Independant thought is good.
It won't hurt for long.
16bit pathway @ 400mhz, ok, yea, fast enough I suppose, the 64bit pathway may help on some of the latency issues, bandwidth should go through the roof, but will this not bring the price that much higher?
not to mention the fact that the memory will be as much a pain as the CPU to upgrade soon, PC2400, PC2700 and the new RDRAM will require new motherboards, correct? and there's no end to the upgrades in sight.
it seems like now that we should be able to upgrade processors (AMD to 2ghz and Northwood hopefully) by just dropping in a new CPU, but the memory system is going to be substandard within a few months.
any word on the stopping point of DDR or RDRAM to level out?
PC100/133 has been a fairly constant standard for at least 4? years now?
we're going to see higher prices in RAM again soon simply because of all the different varieties of it out there, PC100/133 has been cheap because primarily its all thats been produced for years, now its being replaced by new types that change every few months.
any comments ladies and gents?
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Independant thought is good.
It won't hurt for long.