Hot news. DDR3 memory modules is out!!

Reviews so far:

Super talent DDR3 - working modules
Buffalo DDR3 - already for sale!
Anandtech : DDR3 vs DDR2
Kingston DDR3 vs DDR2
AnandTech: Intel P35
First low-latency DDR3 - Kingston
---DDR3-1066 (6-6-6)
---DDR3-1333 (7-7-7)
Corsair Dominator at 1600 Mhz (and preview at 2000Mhz)!!
X-bitlabs - DDR3 SDRAM
OCZ DDR3-1800
OCZ platinum vs Corsair Dominator DDR3-1800

More info on DDR3:
Samsung's DDR3 info

Facts up to now:

90 nm process
40% lower power consumption (compared to DDR2)
1.5V (DDR2 1.8v, DDR 2.5v)
800-1600 Mhz effective clock rate (DDR2 : 400-1066 Mhz) (DDR 200-600 Mhz)
CAS 7 (Rated at 5 - 10) (DDR2 3-6)
8-bit pre-fetch architecture (DDR2 4-bit)

Mainstream in 2009 (Probably..... maybe..... don't get your hopes up to much!!!)

And the last part:

240-pin DIMM interface - allowing DDR3-compatible chipsets to host DDR2 modules !!!
Update : Misleading - DDR3 has different notch compared to DDR2!

This means that by that time, when we upgrade, we can still use our DDR2-1200 Mhz CL 3 Corsair dominator water-cooled RAMS !!!

Attached is the DDR3 speeds as compared to DDR2. Due to no speed advantage, it is said that AMD would not transition to DDR3 until at least DDR3-1333.....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 31 2007, 11:44 AM


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cool!! finally someone posted this thread!!

but i'm waiting for big brand and when it will be launched in local officially??

how many hardware out there is able to support this?
need to change mobo?

Great... now let's see the price of RAMs change again.

you need Bearlake G or P series to support DDR3. i guess it means getting new motherboard.

Isn't super talent a good U.S brand?

Frankly speaking, I've never heard of this brand until I saw our nice LYN traders selling it individually or in bulk.

zero. and u wont get it cheap. expect it to sell at twice the price of DDR2.

oh, new mobo and again waiting for all the mobo manufacturer to get this DDR3 support mobo produce massively and we can get cheap price then...

damn....not DDR3 is coming ar??

there is same review say that the new DDR3 architecture features high-speed data transfer of up to 1333Mbps, double the speed of the DDR2 and high-speed operation with low-power consumption...

At the moment just Intel P33, G33, P35, G35 and X38 support DDR3...
However just P35 will in market in Q2, the rest will in market Q3

Guys faster save enough cash 2 sapu all DDR2 u can get. Coz once DDR3 arrive on our market DDR2 price gonna rise...

Why arr?
Isn't DD3 release price of DDR2 drop? Me confused...

that time DDR2 will be discontinued,once the ram is discontinue,the price sure rise one....cause demand more than supply.....

same what happen to ddr.price keep rise

I don't think DDR2 will be discontinued anytime soon. Same thing happened last time when DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 came out and reviews showed that DDR2 did not have much speed advantage compared to low latency DDR400 rams.

Facts on DDR3 from Wiki:

90 nm process
40% lower power consumption (compared to DDR2)
1.5V (DDR2 1.8v, DDR 2.5v)
Effective clock rate 800-1600 Mhz (DDR2 : 400-1066 Mhz) (DDR 200-600 Mhz)

And the last part:

240-pin DIMM interface - allowing DDR3-compatible chipsets to host DDR2 modules !!!

This means that by that time, when we upgrade, we can still use our DDR2-1200 Mhz CL 3 Corsair dominator water-cooled RAMS !!!

when will AMD use DDR3? any news?

hopes DDR3 don't lose the memory timing anymore

spam thread?

Anyway here's a bit more news on DDR3, Japan is getting them earlier.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/displa...0426140713.html

Err.... the hyperlink above on Buffalo DDR3 indicates that its DDR3 will be CAS 7!!!
(DDR3 CAS 5 to 10) (DDR2 CAS 3-6)

But even CL7, supposed to be faster.....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Apr 27 2007, 10:25 PM