10% OC lock on LGA775 is logical!!

[Vapor]

Of course, I don't want it, but after seeing the OCing ability of ALL available DDR2, it's no wonder that Intel had to put a lock on it....none of the DDR2 533 failed to make DDR2 667 (or 686, the highest OC on Anandtech's Abit AA8 possible). You can see for yourself <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2112" target="_new">here.</A>

Really quite astonishing, IMO...most of the RAM still used 'tight' timings and low voltages at the mobo's max, too.

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[Ned_Flanders]

maybe AMD should re-think their status when it comes to ddr2?

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[Vapor]

Huh??? The frequencies possible on DDR2 are insane!! You can actually get a lot more performance out of DDR2 than DDR when overclocking (which is the explanation for Intel's locking 925X). DDR2 is actually turning out to be very promising; once LL and EB modules come out, who knows what can happen. Oh yeah, you can also get higher densities and lower voltages with it...yet more pluses.

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[Snorkius]

AMD has no need for those 600+ speeds yet...

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[Guest]

Thats nice to see. DDR2 didnt look that promising at first.
Also it makes even more sense why AMD is slow to adopt DDR2 higher timming, higher bandwith wont benefit AMDs CPUs that much...

Its nice to see that Asus can probly unlock the OC lock and that their P5AD2 is offering DDR2 600 Native support.

What about a P4 2.8e Oced at 4.666 with DDRII running at 667mhz wouldnt that be sweet. The question is more: would that be possible without super exotic cooling soultion hehe.

More realisticly maybe a 2.8e with DDRII at 600 running at 4.2ghz is probly quite possible with water cooling.Prescott shouldnt scale so bad at those high clock speed.

 

[ZER0]

the reason amd isn't using ddr2 is because amd doesn't decide what happends in the industry and doesn't push any tech besides cpu tech. therefore they're always behind on [-peep-]. u can thank intel for sata ddr2 pci express and usb 2.

 

[Vapor]

What about a P4 2.8e Oced at 4.666 with DDRII running at 667mhz wouldnt that be sweet.

Ermmm...at 200FSB, DDR2 runs at 533MHz because of weird chipset dividers. At 250FSB, DDR2 runs at 667MHz because of those same dividers.

Anyway, all their 533 DDR2 reached 667MHz with ease (some moreso than others), so I expect the DDR2 available today might top out at around 750-800, which would correspond to 281-300FSB, which is still impressive (2.8GHz P4E at 4.2GHz). Of course, I'm sure it is possible to have them be 1:1...but you can get so much more bandwidth with stock divider (at 4.2GHz in 1:1, it would only run DDR2 600, rather than 800 with the given 3:4 multiplier).

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[Guest]

Ya actually havent read the article b4 posting a comment... I noticed it afterwards. Running 1:1 would be sweet tough

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[Guest]

Maybe but AMD wouldnt benefit from DDRII. Their processor might even work slower cause of those higher latency...

Thanks AMD for 64 bit extension/Cool&quiet/NX tech...
Amd too can influence the industry.

Oubviously they have less ressources to push those new tech so they do it the smartest way, wait for it to become more widely available, then integrate it when it does actually help increase your products performance...

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[HardWareBoss]

Thanks for the link. Nice read on DDR2. Plus wait untill Intel launches Dual core Cpus.