Intel Stakes Its Vision of the PC Future with 775 Launch

Intel Flex Memory Technology

Intel may have been very quick to realize that memory timings would only have little impact on their DDR2 / PCI Express / LGA 775 platform. This could be one reason why Flex Memory Technology was introduced. By looking more closely at this term, we quickly learn how it works: It is possible to run dual-channel modes with different memory equipment in order to facilitate upgrades. How does it sound to run dual channel with 2x 256 MB in one channel and 1x 512 MB in the other one?

Intel's presentation does not go into detail about the performance one can expect in this dual channel symmetric mode, so we decided to run a couple of benchmarks. Here we picked the ATI Radeon X600 and another 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 560, as our first test system was busy with the platform benchmarks.

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.