Items tagged with DDR
Recently, several big name memory companies have offered new "low-latency" DDR memory modules capable of running with brisk 2-2-2-5 timings at 400MHz. Based on Samsung's latest low-latency ICs, these chips have demonstrated remarkable stability, compatibility and speed as well as the potential to overclock in excess of 500MHz...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HH :) With some new products rolling into the Canadian portion of the labs, this News Jockey will surely be a busy for the next little while. However, just because I live a busy life doesn't mean that I don't like to kick back with a cold beverage and a good read. Oh...
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Good evening friends, NJ stopping in with another dose of HH's special brand of juice. On tap tonight we have a variety of flavours that should suit just about everyone's taste. So, go grab a mug and pull up a stool, I am starting to server... DDR vs. DDR2 @ Legion Hardware "After recently reviewing the Gigabyte 8GPNXP...
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Good morning friends, how was your weekend? Things in my life have been extremely hectic over the past week or so. Thankfully, it seems to be falling into place and my day-to-day schedule is reverting to somewhat sane hours. Nonetheless, there is no better way to start the work week off then sitting down with a piping hot...
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Corsair's XMS (Xtreme Memory Speed) memory modules have long been a favorite amongst the enthusiast community. Corsair has memory kits available in many different sizes and speeds, and all of them are regarded as some of the best modules available in their respective categories. Unfortunately, with the demise of Winbond's BH5/BH6 chips,...
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Good evening friends, welcome back. With a majority of the HH crew playing with our new "toy" (the forum), the labs have been fairly subdued today. The news-front, however, has been quiet active. So, go grab a glass, I am starting to server the juice... Arctic Silver Thermal Compounds...
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Good morning gang. Time for a little bit of computer hardware news and reviews to wake up with. We're all cranking away on some sweet new hardware and the reviews should keep rolling out at a steady pace. This should be one heck of a summer, so stay tuned. For now, grab some java and enjoy the news we have on tap right...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HotHardware :) With today being Canada Day, yours truly has been out enjoying the gorgeous weather. With a gentle breeze, sunny skies and an ample supply of BEvERages, the day has gone by quite nicely. However, there is work to be done. So, before it gets...
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Good afternoon folks! It's a muggy, wet day here in HH's New York lab. It seems like Mother Nature is making up for the fantastic weather this Father's Day! No matter though, I've got 6 video cards running through our benchmark suite in preparation for some upcoming articles, and could use a good excuse to stay inside chained...
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Good Morning All, Intel lets fly with their new i925X and i915 chipsets today, along with a couple of LGA775 based P4's to go with them. PCI Express, DDR2 and a host of other new goodies are on the bench at HotHardware.com. Have a look at all this new good stuff, right here!...
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Good morning friends, welcome back to HotHardware :) Things around the Northern part of the HH labs were fairly quiet this weekend. My GF took off camping for two days so I was left home alone. Needless to say, I took the opportunity to party it up with the boys ;) Anyhow, lets get down to business so I can pop a few...
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Good afternoon friends, welcome back to Hot Hardware :) Yesterday I received a chance to see a free screening of Shrek 2 at a new DLP cinema that recently opened. I must say, besides the movie being outrageously funny, the presentation using DLP was amazing. The difference in picture quality is like comparing a DVD to a VHS;...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HH :) I was driving home from work tonight when I noticed my car could use some gas. As I approached the unusually empty gas station I happened to look at the price of gas; it had jumped to a record high of $0.84 per/L ($3.18 per/Gallon for you folks in the US)...
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Good evening brothers and sisters :) The Ol'News Jockey is still not feeling on top of his game today, so nothing terrible exciting happened in my world. I have basically been veging-out in front of the computer with my new game, FarCry. If you have yet had a chance to pick up a copy/download the...
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Sneak Peek: NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra with GDDR3 RAM By, Marco Chiappetta March 24, 2004 Monday, March 22, 2004: Good afternoon folks! An interesting package just landed in the lab, that we thought you'd like to take a look at. At first glance, the card below looks like an ordinary GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, but upon...
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The Abit SD7-533 Motherboard With Crucial DDR PC2700 Memory A SiS645 Pentium 4 board with Abit flare - DDR PC2700 Done Right With Crucial By, Dave Altavilla April 23, 2002 There certainly has been no shortage of motherboard variants on the market, that support DDR SDRAM for the Pentium 4 architecture. Now that Intel...
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Dueling i845 DDR Boards From Abit and Asus Abit's BD7-RAID and Asus' P4B266 Take Flight By, Dave Altavilla January 23, 2002 We're back again with a look at two new motherboards based on Intel's recently released i845D chipset with DDR SDRAM support. Our initial look at the i845D was centered around some fairly standard...
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The MSI K7T266 Pro DDR Socket A Monster Misguided? or Misunderstood?... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta June 14, 2001 With the influx of DDR memory into the market place, came a craving for a high performing chipset to exploit the increased bandwidth offered by this new memory type. AMD was first to introduce a DDR chipset for...
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Intel's i845 DDR Chipset Debuts MSI's 845 Ultra-ARU & DFI's NB70-SC DDR Solutions Based On Intel's New Value Platform By, Dave Altavilla December 17 2001 The market has been waiting for this one for a long time. Intel has authorized OEMs to begin shipping Brookdale (i845) based solutions, now with DDR...
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IBM's DDRS34560D - 4.5 Gig Ultra 2 SCSI LVD Drive SCSI for the masses! SCSI, use to conjure up memories of difficult set up and lots of time spent tweaking with settings in the SCSI BIOS trying to get a drive to run at peak performance. Not so with many of today's SCSI Drives. IBM has a full arsenal of high performance...
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Shuttle's AV40 VIA P4X266 DDR P4 Motherboard RAMBUS, watch your back, DDR comes to the P4 By, Dave Altavilla October 15, 2001 Here's a vocabulary word for you, "litigious". Good one isn't it? Before you get nervous that this is some sort of creative writing lesson, let me explain, as this word is very fitting for...
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Soyo's K7ADA ALi DDR Socket A Mobo... With some Crucial PC2100 RAM and a WBK38 thrown in! By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta April 18, 2001 It seems that regardless of which PC component we speak of today the subject of bandwidth, and more specifically memory bandwidth, seems to take center stage. Recent discussions in the...
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