Texas-Sized Supercomputer
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Yes i know that, it reduces the timing for the data throughput, but what I mean is surely such a large system wish such a price tag will use something similar to DDR3, which to my knowledge is similar to what the old DDR2 cards were, as in being to expensive to be used for system RAM in general consumer machines at present.
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Unless they convinced AMD to sell them custom/6-12mo advanced prototype CPUs it can't be using DDR3. Current model athlon/operterons have an integrated DDR2 controller. IT can't talk to DDR1. It can't talk to DDR3. I suspect they're using highend gamer ram with godly clocks and timings but it's still DDR2. They have no choice on the matter since AMD made the ram decision when they manufactured the chips. In any event, current DDR3 isn't actually any faster than DDR2, the clock speed gain is just fast enough to balance the latency penalty, and the highest end DDR2 still has a tiny speed edge. This will change in time since DDR2 speeds have largely hit a wall and DDR3 is only currently available at the low end of the spec at present.
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