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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:There Is No by Kaenneth · · Score: 5, Funny

    english is a living language.

    no 'astronauts' 100 years ago.

    'bling' wasn't a word 10 years ago.

    I once had a teacher that used to say " 'um' is not a word, it is not in the dictionary. " whenever a student speaker said 'um'. When she did it to me I open the dictionary on her desk to the 'U's...

    um also umm Audio pronunciation of "um", interjection.

    Used to express doubt or uncertainty or to fill a pause when hesitating in speaking.

    2 days suspension for insubordination.

  2. Re:Is there really a difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    Who's modding these "Insightful?"