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Elpida 40nm 2 Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM Complete
Elpida has announced it’s completion of development of their 40nm 2 Gigabit DDR3 SDRAM memory chips.
Corsair re-launches Dominator GT kits - new part numbers
Corsair has announced a re-launch of their Dominator GT kits with new part numbers.
DDR3-2000+ Memory Kits - Fast but Flawed
Anandtech.com revisits Elpida Hyper based IC triple channel memory kits and shares their experiences regarding the failure rates with the recent batches of Elpida Hyper ICs.
Mushkin Elpida Hyper purchasing suspended
Mushkin has announced on their support forums, that they’ll be suspending purchases of Elpida Hyper ICs until a resolution to their failure rates are found.
Corsair Dominator GT sales halt & product recall
Corsair has issued an announcement regarding their Corsair Dominator GT products amidst the reports of unexplainable failures on the Elpida Hyper based ICs used in the memory modules.
Memory Scaling on Core i7
Anandtech.com has posted an in depth article to find out whether there is value in using memory faster than DDR3-1333Mhz on Core i7 /X58 platform. Read the full details here.
Samsung Announces First Validated 40-nanometer Class DRAM
Samsung has anounced the first validated 40-nanometer class DRAM chip and module. This new 1-Gigabit DDR2 component (x8) and
Toshiba FeRAM —Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
Toshiba Corporation today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM —Ferroelectric Random Access Memory—that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed.
DDR3 50nm lowers cost and power consumption in 2009
New 50nm DDR3 from Samsung and Elpida are entering mass production this month. The chips will feature higher densities and speeds while lowering latencies, power consumption, and costs.
OCZ Torture Test - Motherboard QVL Site
OCZ has put online an official motherboard qualification vendors list database for their OCZ memory on their site
OCZ Reaper Heatspreader Revision
Tony from OCZ has posted on OCZ forums of a new Reaper heatspreader revision with some cosmetic changes and heatpipe improvements.
Corsair Core i7 Gaming Performance Analysis 6GB vs 3GB
In April 2008, Corsair reviewed the gaming performance between 2GB vs 4GB memory. Now with Core i7 and triple channel DDR3, they have tested gaming performance between 3GB vs 6GB memory.
Memtest86+ v2.10 Released
Memtest86+ v2.10 has been officially released supporting new processors and chipsets http://www.memtest.org/
Kingston Technology Launches HyperX T1 Series Memory
Kingston have announced their new HyperX Thermal Xchange (HTX) heatspreaders which aim to further diffuse heat buildup when overclocking.
Core i7 X58 Triple channel DDR3 memory kit list
Triple channel DDR3 memory kits are now popping up from various memory manufacturers. With Core i7 (Nehalem) and X58 chipset motherboards approaching soon compiling a list of triple channel ddr3 memory kits seems appropriate.
Intel Core i7 and DDR3 memory voltage
Update: Seems Anandtech.com was correct higher vdimm is possible only if you keep a balance between bios voltages particularly the requirement that uncore voltage needing to be within 0.5v of vdimm memory voltages.
