Archive for the ‘kingston’ tag

1.35V DDR3 memory: how much power does it save?

Posted at 10:29 by Richard Swinburne with 5 comments

Richard Swinburne
As soon as Kingston admitted to providing Intel with its 1.35V DDR3 at the IDF Clarksdale demo, we started hearing the buzz from more companies such as G.Skill Press Release, all announcing low voltage DDR3 arriving very shortly.

But what does the drop down to 1.35V bring you?

Read more

Written on 11th November 2009
Tags 1.35v, ddr3, g.skill, kingston, lynnfield, memory, power, voltage

Hardware Podcast 7 - this time it's loud!

Posted at 17:37 by Clive Webster with 11 comments

Clive Webster
First off, apologies for not getting this up yesterday, and for it being so quiet the first time - the podcast fairy has been pretty slack this week. This is the seventh hardware podcast, and Rich, Harry and Tim are joined by Asus bod Iain Bristow. If any other manufacturers would like to join us for pod, please let us know and we'll try to organise it. Up for discussion are:

Subscribe in iTunes
Subscribe to the RSS feed
Download the MP3

Read more

Written on 23rd October 2009
Tags amd, athlon ii x4 620, competition, directcompute, directx 11, dx11, good old games, hd tv, kingston, prize, western digital, win, windows 7, xtreamer, zeno clash, zune hd

SSD performance tips for Intel chipsets and RAID-0

Posted at 20:02 by Richard Swinburne with 4 comments

Richard Swinburne
We had a chat with the Kingston labs team this week in California and noted down some free performance improvements, and limitations, you should be aware of if you own one or more SSDs:
  • The Intel SATA ICH9R/10R/P55 controller under RAID-0 has a maximum real world performance capacity of about 600MB/s in total between it and the CPU.

    Despite the fact you'll need several (four+) SSDs to hit this limit at the moment, it's worth bearing in mind that to get ludicrous performance you'll need at least a PCI-Express x8 card.

    Until Intel increases its DMI and/or SATA controller bandwidth, this could prove a more regular limiting issue when future SATA 6Gbps parts arrive.

Read more

Written on 16th October 2009
Tags ich10r, intel, kingston, p55, performance, raid, sata, ssd

The death of Elpida Hypers

Posted at 12:42 by Richard Swinburne with 3 comments

Richard Swinburne
The buzz in extreme overclocking circles recently has been about DDR3 memory featuring Elipda Hyper ICs coming to an early death. In response to this, several companies have stopped selling very high frequency and/or very low latency DDR3 products built with these ICs.

Read more

Written on 13th July 2009
Tags corsair, ddr3, elpida, g.skill, hyper, kingston, memory, ocz
  • « Previous
  • 1
  • Next »




Mobile Phones

LG Arena ReviewHTC Magic Review

Compare over 250 mobile phones &
52,000 deals!



Broadband

Mobile Broadband

Compare over 100 broadband & mobile broadband deals online!