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Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating
Mark Brown writes "Tom's Hardware is live-testing DDR2 memory products in order to determine whether memory manufacturers submit cherry-picked products for reviews. 'GeIL DDR2-667 that was claimed to be purchased performed worse than the review samples they got: 471 MHz for the review samples vs. 421 MHz for the retail memory.'"
Ok, prolly going to be flamed like a Buddhist monk in Vietnam for this but here goes... The standards we set for equipment are supposed to be across the board. Hence the term "standard" Smart people please tell me how many bits in a byte, how many bytes in a Kb, how many Kb in a Mb... etc. etc. etc. What ever happened to "standards" and the stoic facilities that govern them? All I have to say is until we make a stand about what is and is not acceptable consider yourselves the welcome mats to world industry and marketing. This goes for all the other stuff too. Ever see that commercial where the bathroom sink is just running and all these people are all aghast about it? Well there will be no quiet hero to the rescue to turn the bloody thing off in real life. Stop being a bunch of blue haired Nancy's and form a group that does just more than types. One person is a screwball, two are a conspiracy but several thousand are a force to be reckoned with. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!