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Corsair pimps DDR3 at 2GHz
OVER AT an interview for Legit Reviews, co-founder of Corsair Memory John Beekley all but promises DDR3 RAM modules at 2GHz by the beginning of next year.
The interview is here.
Intel currently only supports 1333MHz DDR3 on its high-end P35 chipset, although X48 is expected to raise the bar up to 1600MHz - a long way from the humble beginnings of DDR down at 266MHz (remember those?) Corsair currently has an 1800MHz part, which is fast enough to work on Intel's unreleased platform with no problems, but expects that overclockability on X48 will be such that 2GHz will be a good move.
In terms of DDR3 adoption, Beekley estimates that DDR3 price parity with DDR2 will happen in 2009, along the same timescale that DDR2 shonked down to DDR1 standards. He also suggests that 4GB adoption is going well, if rather hampered by the performance and feature constraints around 64-bit Windows Vista.
No word on any customised or super-fancy modules to co-incide with Skulltrail, but given the company's close work with Intel in the past, we wouldn't be surprised to see something tip up. µ
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Onboard videocards with 2Gb's of DDR3 Memory anyone???

Gezzz this will give onboard videocards more bandwidth then most high end Cards and with most board allowing 512Mb's thats a Geforce 6200 with a 350Mhz core and 2000Mhz Memory lol good stuff
2ghz...I wonder if the latencies are any worse than DDR2?

I'm still using DDR3200 in my top pc, I'm glad I didn't jump on the bandwagon sooner.
Will,

I'm glad you enjoyed my interview with John, but I just wanted to point out something... 

You stated: "No word on any customised or super-fancy modules to co-incide with Skulltrail, but given the company's close work with Intel in the past, we wouldn't be surprised to see something tip up."

Remember Corsair doesn't make FB-DIMM modules and that the only type of memory Skulltrail uses! I asked Corsair at IDF about FB-DIMM's and they have no plans on introducing them! That's why many of the overclocked Skulltrail systems were running these: http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/569/kingston_fbdimm.jpg

Cheers, 

Nathan Kirsch 
- Legit Reviews