The PC market has during the recent months become more dependent of RAM. Many new games and applications almost require, or at least shows major improvements when ran on a machine equipped with 1GB RAM or more, and earlier on it has been done with modules of 512MB each. This is something that doesn’t work that fine with AMD’s Athlon 64, whose integrated memory really doesn’t want anything to do with more than two modules of RAM. That’s were the 1GB-modules comes in, they seem optimal, but they’ve had a downside: they cost much, and as the Athlon 64 likes low latencies, there hasn’t been such a market for them…
The PC market has during the recent months become more dependent of RAM. Many new games and applications almost require, or at least shows major improvements when ran on a machine equipped with 1GB RAM or more, and earlier on it has been done with modules of 512MB each. This is something that doesn’t work that fine with AMD’s Athlon 64, whose integrated memory really doesn’t want anything to do with more than two modules of RAM. That’s were the 1GB-modules comes in, they seem optimal, but they’ve had a downside: they cost much, and as the Athlon 64 likes low latencies, there hasn’t been such a market for them, since there has been a lack of low-latency modules, as well. But now there is a fair share of manufacturers who has released 1GB modules with relatively aggressive latencies. Anandtech has reviewed three different 1GB modules, and the results are quite interesting.
