Intel Intros 3-Series Chipsets with FSB1333 and DDR3

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Power Consumption Results

DDR3 Memory Power Consumption

Although Intel and the memory vendors promise less power consumption with DDR3 memory, we were not able to verify that. In fact, we found that the power draw of DDR3 DRAM is, in fact, somewhat higher, which may be because of the early hardware revision of the components. The clock speed difference alone should not result in such an increase.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.