ok so with all the reviews on the net going on about how the kt400 has no performance improvement over kt333...
there are some things i don't understand...
people are saying how the memory standard for ddr400 is not there yet.. how it's not stable yet.. yada yada yada..
well this is all true, but once you finally get it working using tested samples of memory (like the reviews on tomshardware and anandtech)
at the same timings shouldn't the kt400 be clearly faster than the kt333?
i don't think i've yet seen a clear comparison of two boards running the memory at the exact same timings using the exact same cpu just one running at kt333-ddr333 and the other one running at kt400-ddr400.
the athlon cpu is definetly bandwidth hungry, not as much as p4.. but still. there is no way that ddr333 memory is more bandwith than it needs (which is basically what the tests are saying)
second of all kt400 running the momery at ddr333 should be basically exactly the same as kt333 running the memory at ddr333 shouldn't it?
this is of course true only if the chipset is designed correctly.
anyhow...
any thoughts on this?
there are some things i don't understand...
people are saying how the memory standard for ddr400 is not there yet.. how it's not stable yet.. yada yada yada..
well this is all true, but once you finally get it working using tested samples of memory (like the reviews on tomshardware and anandtech)
at the same timings shouldn't the kt400 be clearly faster than the kt333?
i don't think i've yet seen a clear comparison of two boards running the memory at the exact same timings using the exact same cpu just one running at kt333-ddr333 and the other one running at kt400-ddr400.
the athlon cpu is definetly bandwidth hungry, not as much as p4.. but still. there is no way that ddr333 memory is more bandwith than it needs (which is basically what the tests are saying)
second of all kt400 running the momery at ddr333 should be basically exactly the same as kt333 running the memory at ddr333 shouldn't it?
this is of course true only if the chipset is designed correctly.
anyhow...
any thoughts on this?