High Performance DDR2 Memory Breaks 1.25GHz

TrackinYeti writes "Performance PC Memory manufacturer, Corsair recently released a new addition to their flagship Dominator line of desktop memory, the TWIN2X2048-10000C5DF. This 2GB DDR2 memory kit features the company's DHX Dual Path Heat Xchange cooling technology, support for Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP), it includes one of Corsair's Dominator active memory coolers, and it's rated for operation at a currently industry leading 1.25GHz."

Comments

Re:Does it come with an air conditioner?

[klingens]

Watercooling for memory is only a question of when, not if :)

But does it come with ECC?

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't find registered ECC DDR2 faster than 667 MHz. Why?
I was hoping my next machine would be a quad core with 800 MHz DDR2 and ECC.
Much as my current machine is PC3200 DDR with registered ECC. No sense throttling down the relative bandwidth per core.

[Please don't waste time trying to convince me I don't need ECC.
SGIs taught me otherwise and soft error rates really are on the rise. Just answer the question thanks.]

Re:Memory speed is how relevant to system operatio

[zippthorne]

No, he's saying that more memory is better than fast memory. He might not need 8GB, but it's likely that 8GB of RAM would improve system performance better than doubling the speed of the ram.

The whole assumption is that anyone needing that much performance will be butting up against disk read bottlenecks due to swap anyway.

My question to programmers is this, Swap may have made sense 30 years ago, when ram was like $8/byte and not much faster than disk anyway, but in 2007, ram is ubiquitous and MUCH faster than disk. Why do we even have swap anymore at all?

Re:That's processors have caches (lots of)

[Anpheus]

Because there are two ways to beat the latency problem. One is to get the information closer to the chip (cache) and the other is to allow the chip to do something else, or several something elses at the same time (multiple cores, multiple execution units of various kinds, etc.) If you haven't noticed, the latest Intel chips sport ridiculously large caches (they're up to 12-16MiB now) and have 4 cores.

So... they're still using a lot of real estate for cache.

Re:Does it come with an air conditioner?

[jawtheshark]

Hmmm, I wasn't aware of that technique.... Still, according to the article the heat need to be dissipated from the absorber. I don't know if you could use a CPU to heat the ammonia mixture, since the CPU needs to be cooled. I guess that using it as a heat source isn't sufficient to cool it.

A new market for cases with built-in refrigerator? ;-) If it would work, I think someone would have done it by now...