Pc 1066 is now official

juin

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http://www.intel.com/technology/memory/rdram/valid/rmvalid.htm?iid=ipp_850chpst+body_rdram&

But only on 32P access time aslo now as CT9


Now what to do??
 

eden

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Wow finally...
I can't wait to see Canadian pricing.
Gee if it took this long, imagine PC1200... Well, I'll see you in a similar thread in 2 years juin, when PC1200 is there in Québec! :wink:

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PC1066 has always been official. Intel just hadn't personally validated it for the 850. That in no way stopped other motherboard manufacturers from validating it themselves though.

The cheap manus just trust Intel and don't validate anything for themselves, so they weren't offering official PC1066 support because it would cost them time and money to validate on their own. Now that Intel has validated PC1066, these cheap manus can just go along with trusting Intel.

The quality manus though either run their own seperate validation anyway, or such as in this case were willing to run their own seperate validation because Intel hadn't yet. They were offering official PC1066 support from the beginning of the 850E. For them, nothing has changed because they weren't hindered by Intel's lack of validation in the first place.

After all, to the end-user, Intel validation doesn't mean crap unless it's an actual Intel motherboard. You do RMAs to the reseller and you do factory warantees to the manufacturer (such as Asus), so as long as the manu officially supported it, it never mattered if Intel did or didn't.

All Intel's official validation means is that now you have to worry about faulty cheap-arsed 850 mobos from manus too stingy to do their own validation.

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Intel have a much heavier standart on memory and chipset that any others.Samsung and many others say it when it support be intel and been able to pass the standart.

Now what to do??