Chaintech joins the high-speed DDR3 scene

by Parm Mann on 26 March 2010, 10:34

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Corsair and Kingston have been battling it out for super-fast DDR3 memory supremacy in recent months, but it looks as though Taiwanese manufacturer Walton Chaintech is getting in on the action.

Announced today is the company's all-new Apogee GT DDR3-2400 memory kits, which as the name suggests are set to run at a blazing 2,400MHz.

In addition to the record-matching clock speed, the modules run at latencies of 9-11-10-27-2T at 1.6V - just a fraction slower than Kingston's latencies of 9-11-9-27-2T at the same voltage.

Walton Chaintech's dual-channel kits will be available in 2GB (2x1GB) and 4GB (2x2GB) capacities, and each module comes with a serious-looking heatpipe-equipped heatsink cooler.

There's no mention of pricing and availability as yet, but just don't expect them to be cheap. To give you a ball park, Corsair currently charges $200 (around £140) for each individual DDR3 2,400MHz module.


Press release: Walton Chaintech Rolls Out Industry's Optimum High-Speed Computing Platform



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Could Hexus do an article benching the effects of higher speed RAM modules?

I'm after more capacity rather than speed, but maybe there's a reason everyone is chasing speed at lower capacities instead?
kalniel
Could Hexus do an article benching the effects of higher speed RAM modules?

I'm after more capacity rather than speed, but maybe there's a reason everyone is chasing speed at lower capacities instead?
Speaking as a developer and not as a heavy gamer, I can safely say that RAM capacity is much more important than speed. I feel no imminent need to upgrade my 6GB of DDR2.
why don't they do something amazing and make some RAM based on samsung's 30nm class chips. 4GB/module sans the price premium over 2GB/module is much more impressive than some xtra xpensive xdition marketing crap.
Is this the same Chaintech of motherboards fame? I didn't realise they also made RAM modules and come to think of it, I haven't seen a motherboard from them for a while, have they diversified or am I getting the wrong company?
Nice, but nothing for the 1366 i7 users.