Dual channel DDR chipset

[KingJackal]

Well - it's been anticipated for a long time, and it's finally getting there.

[H]ard|OCP's article (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzIz) has just been put up.

Even as a totally BETA chipset ( without the same optimisations as the DDR333 boards ), the dually 266MHz DDR board shows that it's likely to take out single 333MHz DDR boards. Some enticing PC1066 vs dual DDR numbers are shown.... I suggest you go have a peak.... ;)

So it may not be the silver bullet ( esp. with 32bit RDRAM almost here - not to mention the inevitable dual channel 32-bit RIMMs ), but it's certainely going to be a big step in the right direction for those with the money.

If those results are at indicative, then the final chipset with 333MHz DDR should duely 0wn! :cool:

[Humantuckshop]

For a Beta chipset it certainly held it's own against the i815E with PC1066. :D

The actual production chip and some newer drivers should 0wn the i850.

Am I right in suggesting that the Dual DDR setup would be more stable with Registered DDR? If so, that's gonna be one expensive setup......... :eek:

[Deviant]

Dual Channel DDR has already been out for a while with Nvidia NForce or Crush boards, but the RAM has to share it's bandwidth with the on board GeForce2. Their mamory benchmarks were only as good as KT266a for this reason. I'm curious as to why Nvidia hasn't brought Dual Channel out that doesn't need to share with video already. But this technology looks to be a great solution in the future for the P4.

Also remember the Hammer will probably come out with Dual Channel, if not the Hammer, then definately Opteron a couple of months later. No point in bringing it out for Athlons at the moment.

[mird-OC]

the reason the nforce boards never benched that well is coz the athlon's doubled pumped bus only allows for 2.1GB/sec bandwidth @ 133MHz FSB. the chipset was able to supply a theoretical 4.2GB/sec @ 133MHz FSB but yeh just canney dooit capt'n. it was like the reverse of the current P4+DDR scenario. so it made sense for the onboard GFX to use the rest of it...

the P4 is perfectly suited to dual channel DDR, and this chipset looks promising. up until now rambus has had zero direct competition, and although you still can't directly compare rambus to dual channel DDR, it'll certainly heat things up in this area.

we all knew the performance would be there... but the crunch is stability.

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Originally posted by KingJackal

If those results are at indicative, then the final chipset with 333MHz DDR should duely 0wn! :cool:

How about the final chipset with KT400 then? :p *drools*

[mird-OC]

Originally posted by Gh0s7 L3mUr
How about the final chipset with KT400 then? :p *drools*
erm KT400 = via chipset for athlons... above article = intel chipset for P4s... :)

if you mean DDR400, it might not happen for a while... it seems the industry isn't in that much of a hurry to adopt DDR400...