A-Data announces Tri Channel DDR3 Memory

[TopSecret]

3Gb & 6GB kits are to become available, they are being branded as X58 motherboard ready.

Read the full article here.

 

[Ham]

So they added one stick... woohoo.

At least when I7 does hit you wont need to be buying a kit + 1 odd stick...

 

[Diablo]

Nope, I'll need two, that way I'll have 12GB, and all will be well. It was only a matter of time before this happened, tho who their target market is with the X58 still some way off is a mystery.

 

[GavX]

Do they have to redesign the mem at all? Since unoverclocks the VCore on these i7's is presumably low, so they can't get good speeds with current voltages.

Edit: as even 1.65v is something no one really wants to put through a 45nm chip

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

Apparently you need to keep the RAM voltage below 1.65v otherwise you damage the CPU? Well.. 1.75.. they've screwed that one up already LOL

 

[Luigi]

Thats what I just saw lol!

 

[D-Cyph3r]

1.65v is probably for 8-8-8-24/standard users, 1.75 for the lower rated timings (7-7-7-20) and extreme LN2/DI clockers.

 

[Luigi]

1.65v is probably for 8-8-8-24/standard users, 1.75 for the lower rated timings (7-7-7-20) and extreme LN2/DI clockers.

Doubt it, LN2 Users will want to tinker for themselves, ram companies have never speced for them before...

 

[D-Cyph3r]

Doubt it, LN2 Users will want to tinker for themselves, ram companies have never speced for them before...

But they've also never had to cover their arses like this before.

 

[Luigi]

But they've also never had to cover their arses like this before.

true... (although it didnt say *use these settings for DICE or LN2*

 

[Rastalovich]

Apart from loading ALL of Vista into memory, what we generally going to use 6G for ?

My G15 has only shown me use over 75% of 4g on a beta game that was leaky.

 

[SwaleSmith]

so will your DDR3 Memory such as the ones I'm using now be useless in i7 platforms???

 

[Luigi]

so will your DDR3 Memory such as the ones I'm using now be useless in i7 platforms???

No, but you will have to run it at lower voltages.

 

[Rastalovich]

Lower than what the stock says, isn`t it ?

 

[Luigi]

1.6 max IIRC

 

[SwaleSmith]

how come my you run lower volts, my ddr3 is rated for 1.8v whats the deal with all this.

so the DDR3 that you can buy now is the same as this triple channel thing, I really don't understand this???

 

[Luigi]

how come my you run lower volts, my ddr3 is rated for 1.8v whats the deal with all this.

so the DDR3 that you can buy now is the same as this triple channel thing, I really don't understand this???

Anything above 1.65ish volts kills a core I7 cpu...

So you have to use lower volts or kill your cpu

 

[Pyr0]

You won't need high speed DDR3 with the triple channel mem controller

Even triple chann. DDR3-1333 9-9-9 on Nehalem has higher bandwidth and lower latency than say DDR3 1600 or 1800 on the current core2 CPU's

[edit]pics, BIOS shots and some benchies by coolaler on OCX:

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=3978

 

[SwaleSmith]

You won't need high speed DDR3 with the triple channel mem controller

Even triple chann. DDR3-1333 9-9-9 on Nehalem has higher bandwidth and lower latency than say DDR3 1600 or 1800 on the current core2 CPU's

[edit]pics, BIOS shots and some benchies by coolaler on OCX:

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=3978

So they will function at this voltage, all be i with slower timings but the nehalem platform is miles faster so is more powerfull in the long run.

So the ddr3 1800mhz dominators I currently own are 100% compatible with nehalem architecture.

little of topic but when are the X58 SLI boards likely to be released as I see the one on OCUK mention nothing about Xfire/SLI support presume they will follow.

 

[Bungral]

So they will function at this voltage, all be i with slower timings but the nehalem platform is miles faster so is more powerfull in the long run.

So the ddr3 1800mhz dominators I currently own are 100% compatible with nehalem architecture.

little of topic but when are the X58 SLI boards likely to be released as I see the one on OCUK mention nothing about Xfire/SLI support presume they will follow.

Posted this a few days ago

MSI for one are bringing out 3 X58 motherboard at launch or very soon afterwards that will support SLI. Two with software SLI (one with two 16X PCI-E slots and the other with 3 full 16X slots), and another with the NF200 chip on board which has four full 16X PCI-E slots.

That last one will allow Quad SLI or Tri SLI + 1 extra GFX card used for physix