Thread: Memory for the Athlon 64 FX and Opteron

With the introduction of the Athlon 64 FX-51 end of September this year, storage was the first time, the call for faster aloud While the desktop market is already longer with DDR400 modules were supplied, one could in the server and workstation segment up to date to 166 MHz fast only DDR333 modules with register and error code to draw Correction. With a theoretical memory bandwidth of 2.7 GB / s per bar is DDR333 Registered quickly, but was obviously not fast enough for the new processor from AMD. In short, Registered DDR400 was needed.

The need for this memory with the introduction of the new Adopter processors at 2.2 GHz continued to rise, because this first Adopter CPU in the family also faster than registered memory support. Samsung could be in this product launch very important memory partners win. At the launch of Athlon 64 FX were "only", Kingston and OCZ to the faster Spellchecker jumped Corsair, since memory for the enthusiast who delivers.

Nevertheless, for a long time, not all manufacturers of AMD can convince. Also, the JEDEC has so far given what extension of the current standards for Registered / Buffered modules to a 200 MHz fast variant change. This is also the main reason for the reluctance of many memory chip manufacturers. AMD is a genuine effort, an official JEDEC standard DDR400 Registered creates.

We have the rather modest range of DDR400 Registered modules for the Athlon 64 FX and the new Socket 940 Opterons in even a closer look. Represented in the test are modules from Corsair, Kingston, OCZ and Samsung. The modules from OCZ are unfortunately presented only due to a defect. The reference made by takeMS DDR333 modules / Infineon participated in the test.