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Corsair to Continue Receiving Samsung TCCD Memory
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."
Personally I don't much like the XMSTWINX1024-4400C25PT. I think it's a jerky name. Still, it could be worse. I once knew an memory stick whose middle name was 2Q4B. Poor sucker!
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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A review of these chips compaing performance on AMD and Intel processors!
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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.
That isn't true at all. Gratned you got the first post, but you did so by completely making something up on a topic on which you have no knowledge. Samsung's packages are what made TCCD chips known for their overclocking abilities. Almost any article you read about it, Samsung's packages are the ones being overclocked.
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I can't tell the difference between a machine running with this XMS memory and one with normal DDR SDRAM.
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And there was me still having difficulty telling the difference between EMS and XMS memory - does anyone else feel that computer technology is leaving them behind?
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Kind of the bottleneck? There is not "kind of" about it. It is one of the bottlenecks. Otherwise, why do we have caches?
And what does HT link speed have anything to do with memory on Athlon 64? Unless you're running multi-processor Opteron, CPU's memory accesses don't travel through the HT link. Internal path between CPU core(s) and DRAM inside K8 is way faster than any current DRAM technology can use. Not only that, it scales with K8's frequency, unlike HT or DRAM.
And what does that "hit 1.25GHz" tell you anyway? First of all, HT links are double-pumped, so 1.25GHz at 8-bit link is 2.5GB/s (minus overhead). Same at 16-bit link is 5.0GB/s (minus overhead). Frequency alone doesn't tell you anything. I fear the original poster may have been thinking that since it's 1.25GHz (>>400MHz of DDR400), it's plenty. Yeah right. Dual-channel DDR400 has 128-bit bus width (6.4GB/s), not that this has anything to do with memory bottleneck since CPU/DRAM traffic does not travel on the HT links.
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