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    Montevina ram question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by CeeNote, May 19, 2008.

  1. CeeNote

    CeeNote Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm wondering whether the new Montevina platform will be able to use today's ddr2 ram or will it be ddr3-only just because I figured that ddr3 will probably be ridiculously expensive for the first few months and probably not offer that much of a performance boost.
     
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    Yes, it will still be able to use DDR2
    DDR2-667 and DDR2-800
     
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    Yes the chipset will. But each notebook will likely use one or the other not both. So you would be stuck at PC6400 if DDR2.
     
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    On a kind of related note, I've heard that due to higher latency, DDR3 ram is not expected to give huge performance gains over the current DDR2 RAM. If so, when can we expect to start seeing DDR3 RAM that will show a bigger improvement? Because it seems like kind of a bummer if you buy a laptop that only supports DDR3 and end up having to pay a much greater price for only minimal gains.
     
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    Yea looks like that could be an issue. The 1066Mhz at least on desktop seems to have CL9. But I thought I have read DDR3 800Mhz is CL5 so that would be a nice improvement and add the 1066Mhz FSB will be nice gain.
     
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    Yeah well you wouldn't be buying a new notebook just for the ram. The elevated price would include everything...
     
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    Of course not, but I'm saying that for the ram in specific prices are greater. I'm basing this off the M860TU, which only accepts DDR3 RAM on Eurocom's site. Their site charges exorbiant amounts, but even offsite, I can't find 4 gigs of ram for any less than around 300, whereas the same amount of DDR2 ram comes in at much less.
     
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    It might require 204 pin RAM. The Clevo M860TU apparently needs this type,whereas DDR2 RAM is 200 pin.
     
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    The reason why I was asking that question is because I'm planning to buy a ~$1500 laptop some time in the next month or so and I don't want to spend $300-400 just for 4gigs of ram when I can get 4gigs of ddr2 ram for 80 bucks so I really hope that most manufacturers will support ddr2 ram at least until ddr3 prices drop down to normal levels.
     
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    Montevina will be using DDR3.
     
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    How the OEM's make is one thing but the chipset appears to support DDR2
     
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    This is gonna be a weird one. So it will fit both 200 and 204 pin RAM? Might make sense, if the slots are 4 pin bigger.But then, how do you put the DDR2 stick ? leave 2 pins on one side free, and 2 on the other, or 4 on one side?
    I`m baffled :twitcy:
     
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