Bij 3D Gaming hebben ze een review gepost van Intel's eigen Camino plank, de Vancouver i820 mobo. Voor de test hebben ze ook gebruik gemaakt van RIMM geheugen, wat toch wel een performance boost oplevert t.o.v. Dimmetjes. Jammer alleen dat het onbetaalbaar is op het moment. Hieronder een hap uit de review, lees de rest hier.
So what's with this new memory that costs more per ounce then Beluga caviar? Well, it's Intel's new standard which they have instituted to obtain more bandwidth and help eliminate some of the bottlenecks of the BX chipset.Operating at 800MB/s, PC100 memory wouldn't provide enough bandwidth to facilitate the 1.06 GB/s of AGP 4x, and would be a definite bottleneck in a i820 system. PC133 memory up the ante to 1.06GB/s, but Intel had long ago invested in the technology Rambus was going to provide, and wouldn't want to pull out of it. So now we have the PC800 Rambus RIMM, a 400MHz memory system transferring on the rising and falling edges of the clock (like DDR RAM) on a 16-bit wide bus, giving us 1.6GB/s. In more basic terms, we now have a pipeline which will get information where it needs to go much quicker then before.
