X58

DanGerMus

Holy Fothermuckering sheet. Triple ddr3 what ever that is and up to 4 pci-e x16. EEP monsterous. Nvr mind your Quad fire or Tri-SLI What about Octo Fire/SLI any one?

http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-To-Support-SLI-On-Intel-X58-Chipset/

http://www.hpm-computer.de/product_info.php?info=p9548_MSI-Eclipse.html

SeanW

Looks nice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7
*drools*

Triple DDR3 means that the memory architecture of LGA 1366 systems will be Tri-Channel instead of Dual Channel as on present computers.

So instead of having two slots times two channels, you'll have two slots times three channels, meaning that for optimal performance you'll have to install memory in groups of 3 instead of two as today, to a maximum of 6 DIMMs instead of todays 4.

That will be dead handy for me as I'll likely be putting 3GB of ram into my next rig, so I'll have a simple 3X1GB setup. :cool:

DanGerMus

i guessed the ddr thing. So will this finally make ddr3 a worth while upgrade over ddr2, considering the cost difference.

Also can i assume that with the new CPU architecture being true quad core that we'll be seeing octo core fairl soon. Next 6-12 months?



PS man there is feck all traffic on these forums these days.

BadCharlie

You see the cost of them boards

SeanW

BadCharlie wrote: »

You see the cost of them boards

They will come down.
As will DDR3, presumably, I've seen DDR3 modules come down dramatically in price to the point where they're reasonably affordable, though like with the boards (and the processors) it will take time for them to reach the price levels of todays DDR2 equipment.

DanGerMus

SeanW wrote: »

They will come down.
As will DDR3, presumably, I've seen DDR3 modules come down dramatically in price to the point where they're reasonably affordable, though like with the boards (and the processors) it will take time for them to reach the price levels of todays DDR2 equipment.

And then we'll have ddr5 (AFAIK they're skipping 4 for some reason)

astrofool

DanGerMus wrote: »

And then we'll have ddr5 (AFAIK they're skipping 4 for some reason)

That's GDDR5, GDDR4 was used on some cards (Radeon HD 2900XT), but didn't offer much of a performance boost over GDDR3, most will go straight to GDDR5, as it offers twice the bandwidth of GDDR3 at the same clock speed.

These are on a completely seperate track to system memory, and it is likely that desktop DDR4 will employ a lot of the techniques used by GDDR5, if not GDDR6/7 (if it's out by then).