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Corsair to Continue Receiving Samsung TCCD Memory

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-done-yet dept.

Doggie Fizzle writes "Bigbruin.com has a review of some Corsair XMS TWINX1024-4400C25PT DDR, but info on the future of TCCD may be the most interesting part. TCCD chips are well known for their proven overclocking, but the buzz is that Samsung has stopped making TCCD chips, and that we will no longer see them on the market once the current supply runs out. Not true according to Corsair. According to a source quoted in the review, Corsair will soon be the only source of TCCD chips."

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  1. Re:Is there really a difference? by taskforce · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, the memory is kinda the bottleneck. Becuase current RAM technologies has a speed which matches the bus, increasing the bus higher it great except for the fact that RAM can't stand going that high. Most new Athlon64 boards with Hypertransport can hit 1.25Ghz bus speed (if you take into account the HT multipliers) but RAM speed dividers have to be used to keep the memory from dying, which as any overclocker knows is more often than not the problem with any overclock. (Most modern CPUs and motherboards have loads of bus speed overclockability in them.)

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  2. Re:Is there really a difference? by dreamchaser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bus speed is not the limiting factor, especially not with AMD's x86 implementations. Memory *latency* is the biggest problem with high speed memory, and TCCD's are known to clock fairly high while maintaining low latencies.

  3. Re:Is there really a difference? by developer55 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Sure, I can see the difference in the benchmarks, but real-life..."

    Real life?
    For many on this site, benchmarks are "real life"