QUOTE(taxidoor @ May 31 2007, 01:38 AM)
lol
i wait DDR3 really worth to buy only consider x38
btw dun forget nvidia wor...
they sure have sumthing for DDR3 right?
for now 680i play well
Maybe I should say about this... someone thought the DDR successor will be like from
DDR -> DDR2 -> DDR3 -> DDR4 -> DDR5 ->DDRXXXX.....or I am here to clarify that not such DDR4 for PC ( except GDDR4 for Graphical usage) or further will exist at future if The
Octal-Core to be planned released at 2008.
Why? because of the high latency of DDR (Double Data Rate), (especially DDR3

)
and it should be replaced by QDR(Quad Data Rate) RDram which able to proceed
Quad Channel RDRAM but now Samsung already have particular so called XDR (Extreme Data Rate) a.k.a ODR (Octal Data Rate)
by link to this
SAMSUNG XDRwhich you can see that the future plan of memory market trend.
By copy from that link about description on XDR:Where is XDR DRAM in use?
XDR DRAM is best memory solution for wide-ranging applications including video console games, digital televisions, computer servers, workstations and other applications where high bandwidth and low latency are required.
Computer Products, PC Workstations and Servers
System memory bandwidth is more important than ever before. The increase in processor performance, multimedia and 3D graphics, high bandwidth memory is essential to sustain system performance.
XDR DRAM provides exceptional performance with low latency for these applications
High-end Consumer Electronics
Consumer products demand the highest levels of performance to give life-like animation to game consoles, and high-quality digital imaging in digital HDTVs, and high-speed encoding/decoding in set-top boxes.
[ XDR DRAM Advantage in Consumer Applications ]
Smaller # of Devices : XDR DRAM(1pcs) vs. DDR2 (4pcs)
Smaller ASIC pin count : XDR DRAM(~74pin) vs. DDR2(~248pin)
Easy PCB routing
Offer more capacity(x2/x4/x8 device) & more performance (4.0Gbps)
However, put those Enthusiast technology aside, I am waiting those Intel chipset competetor : Nvidia NForce and ATi chipset series to fight back the chipset market population, then as a consumer, we can beneath from the cheaper / reasonable price for those new technologies.
This post has been edited by cinbao: May 31 2007, 08:54 AM