Shopping for most kinds of computer hardware is easy. If you pay even basic attention to the industry you're not going to have too much trouble following individual trends and understanding the basic ...

When it comes to PC components, newer is almost always better. But unlike processors or video cards, new PC memory technologies don't come along very often. Also known as random access memory or RAM ...

The write speed of the 9200 FlexXLC at 800MHz low latency is appreciable to the Kingston memory and both are far larger than the Corsair offerings. Even overclocked to CAS-3 we couldn't get the SLI ...

Okay, so I finally raised myself enough money to build myself my own rig for gaming. While I've completed it and it runs fine, I have one nagging issue - I bought 4 GB of DDR2 1066 but I can't get the ...

With so much emphasis placed on processors, memory chips often get overlooked as an integral component of system performance. Dynamic RAM (DRAM) vendors will start the transition to a new memory ...

Prescott may have Intel fans foaming at the mouth, but you may be limited in your choice of motherboards if you're also hoping to outfit your new rig with DDR2 RAM. So far, motherboard makers have ...

Several new products for DDR2-667 registered dual in-line memory modules (R-DIMMs) have been launched by IDT. The products include a set of phase-locked loop (PLL) clock drivers and register products, ...

The generic idea in an ideal situation the memory should be clocked as fast as your FSB/HTT to gain optimal bandwidth. Unfortunately it's very tough and expensive to have memory clocked at that speed, ...

The emerging DDR3 memory standard will extend the performance range of DDR memories considerably, while maintaining some amount of backwards compatibility with the existing DDR2 memory standard. It is ...

This article presents practical techniques for incorporating “correctness by design” in DDR2 interfaces, from a Signal Integrity (SI) perspective, using the current generation of available design ...

The Reaper modules feature the new "heat piped conduit" (HPC) design that duct the heat away from the side heatspreaders up into the case airflow stream. But removing the heat from the main body of ...