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LAN Party Forums => FITES News => Started by: kona on July 10, 2007, 03:39:43 PM
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X-bit Labs attempts to answer the above question.
The recently announced Intel P35 chipset has already become very popular in the market. The official support of CPUs with 1333MHz system bus and the upcoming Penryn processor family did their part; this chipset has become of great interest to advanced users as well as leading mainboard makers. Over the past few weeks different Intel P35 based mainboards practically flooded the market, offering all sorts of features for every budget.
Although we have already tested a few mainboards based on Intel P35 chipset, one of its very interesting features has so far been left out of our discussion. We are talking about DDR3 SDRAM support that this chipset offers in addition to the traditional DDR2 SDRAM. As it always happens with any new product launch, the DDR3 SDRAM modules haven’t been widely available in stores yet, which prevented us from performing a fully fledged testing of the platforms using new memory type. However, today the situation has already changed for the better: you can easily buy corresponding memory modules almost anywhere.
That is why we felt it was the right time to get into details on the new platforms with DDR3 SDRAM support. Especially, since Intel P35 is the first and only transitional Intel chipset (besides its integrated G33 counterpart) that offers both: DDR3 and DDR3 SDRAM support at the same time.
LINK (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/ddr3.html)