Seven 8 GB DDR3 Memory Kits For Your AMD A75 Motherboard

[kriswone]

Where are the rest of the 1866 models? maybe get some 2133 and overclock? let get some real stats here, 1600 is too low, and too Intel for my blood.

 

[kriswone]

G.Skill - not a problem.

 

[cobra5000]

I wish that AMD had something like the XMP that Intel has. It just seems like a much easier to get those nice timings that they advertise on the packages.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]cobra5000[/nom]I wish that AMD had something like the XMP that Intel has. It just seems like a much easier to get those nice timings that they advertise on the packages.[/citation]It's called EPP 2.0, developed by Nvidia and Corsair, and it was made "open" so we could find it on AMD-chipset motherboards. Unfortunately, XMP is more popular and companies don't "do both" on the same module due to branding issues.

 

[kriswone]

XMP isn't more popular, it's just doled out by intel so sheeple follow blindly.

 

[cwolf78]

I was hoping to see some overclocked benchmarks using DDR3-2000 RAM. I know that in the initial A8-3850 review that these faster speeds boosted performance by quite a bit. I have used DDR3-2000 in all of my Llano builds so far. Just wondering if the extra cost over DDR3-1866 is worth the amount of performance increase.

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]cwolf78[/nom]I was hoping to see some overclocked benchmarks using DDR3-2000 RAM. I know that in the initial A8-3850 review that these faster speeds boosted performance by quite a bit. I have used DDR3-2000 in all of my Llano builds so far. Just wondering if the extra cost over DDR3-1866 is worth the amount of performance increase.[/citation]The highest supported ratio is for DDR3-1866, but you could probably extrapolate the performance difference based on the gains seen between the tested 1333, 1600 and 1866.

One of the games in the A8 review was unusually bandwidth-hungry. Past experience has shown that Far Cry 2 would have similarly favored faster RAM to an unusual degree. The games in this review were thought to be "closer to the average", providing a realistic expectation of what readers could expect in the "average" game.

 

[yasir siddiqui]

very nice info.

 

[PeterTaps]

It is not clear from the article how much memory is actually shared. Can the GPU share all the 8G if needed? I am trying to decide if I really need 8G or is 4G enough for an HTPC.

Regards,
Peter

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]mnbvvbnm[/nom]You're better off buying value RAM with decent timings and throwing that extra $$$ into a GPU. I promise your FPS will improve more that way.[/citation]You're better off leaving before you dig yourself any deeper. $55 for an 8GB pair of two 4GB sticks was pretty cheap in September.