Hynix Announces Speedy GDDR5

[WC Annihilus]

"Hynix Introduces Industry's Fastest 7Gbps, 1Gb GDDR5 Graphics DRAM"

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[AdamLeyshon]

zomg thats fast, it's a shame that this kind of memory can't be used as system RAM. Wonder why that is?

 

[Rastalovich]

With the present cpu/mobos reading memory to the standard of ddr3, making ddr5 on ddr3 sized strips would work perfectly well, but u firstly have the expense, and secondly there would be so much freedom wasted. Something to the effect of sticking ddr3 in a edo converter and putting it in pc66 setup.

My personal opinion is that 8 of these welded to a mobo, and something like a nb cooler put on them would negate the need for any memory for anything - until u need a new mobo.

Maybe not ddr5, but certainly ddr4, I'm sure AMD could build a mobo, with onboard graphics and a slot for a phenom. Small boxed sized games/all purpose pc I`ve been banging on for years they should build. Shared memory ? So what, u have the overhead as ur cpu can only access at ddr3 speeds at best.

Slimline bluray player/dvd rw, ethernet onboard, firewire, Realtek ALC889, loads of USB - job done. £400/500 easy.

EDIT: make that 2x onboard gpus.

 

[AdamLeyshon]

I agree rastalovich, tbh I think my motherboard (Asrock ConRoeXFire-eSATA2) is my biggest bottleneck, not sure i'm getting as much performance from my E6600 as I would have though, don't get me wrong it's fast, I mean really fast but I have noticed in some high action scenes (CS:S 32man server on office) it skips 1/2 frames and i really don't think it should as HL2 should use both cores right? well it only showing that it's using 50-60% CPU

 

[Raging]

HL2 should use both cores right? well it only showing that it's using 50-60% CPU

thats because it uses half of each core,the load get split between cores it doesnt just load up 1 core to 100%

mmm ddr5