Holy crap!

[Czechmate]

OK, last week, I came home on Thursday to find a box from Intel with a new 955x motherboard and a 3.2GHz EE dual-core chip. (WTF is that? (http://www.intel.com/personal/desktop/dualcore/index.htm?iid=HPAGE+up_feat_05ww16&)) I come home for lunch today to find that Kingston has sent their new DDR2 RAM to fit in this beast. This RAM is DDR-2 and runs at 750MHz (1.5GHz at full speed). I can't wait for Hitachi to come through in a pinch with a pair of SATA drives. (Crossing fingers...) This is going to be one seriously sweet machine.

~Czech, hardware whore

[ChicKeN]

i like you less everyday

[BuddhaMan]

Does that mobo do 750Mhz on the memory bus? I thought the high end was 667MHz.

Also, what are the memory timings? DDR2 is way high right now...maybe these are lower.

[Czechmate]

The mobo will only do 667MHz (I think). Kingston just sent the highest end stuff. It'll scale down. The latency timing is 4-4-4-12. Oddly (and I assume for heat reasons), it only uses 1.9v of electricity. DDR2 isn't compatible with DDR -- that little notch has moved like a centimeter, making sure you don't try to plug it in. Where DDR is 168-pin, DDR2 is 240-pin, but the slot size is the same.

~Czech