Kingston Releases World’s Fastest DDR2 At 750MHz

edited April 2005 in Science & Tech
Kingston Technology announced the release of HyperX modules capable of achieving unprecedented speeds of 750MHz, which is currently the world’s record for officially made RAM product.
Kingston’s HyperX KHX6000D2-series of memory modules are rated to operate at 750MHz with CL4 4-4-12 timings and 1.9V voltage. The products were first described in late January, 2005, and were said not to feature any expensive and specially designed PCBs, but used standard JEDEC-certified print-circuit boards.

“Like all HyperX products, the new 750MHz module was designed and qualified by careful selection of the best components, then assembled and tested for ultimate performance. Kingston's engineering lab was able to reach an unprecedented 866MHz with these new modules,” said said Mark Tekunoff, senior technology manager, Kingston

HyperX PC2-6000 modules are available immediately in 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB configurations, but in limited quantities, the company said.

Kingston originally indicated that one of the problems with the launch of commercial high-speed memory modules was the absence of mainboards that could stably operate with 750MHz memory: initially only ASUS P5AD2-E could easily handle 750MHz DDR2, while even ABIT’s Fatal1ty i925XE could not be fully stable with such speeds. Now it is expected that the HyperX PC2-6000 modules are compatible with broader set of mainboards.
Wow, the memory arena has surely gotten interesting lately. -KF

Source: X-Bit Labs

Comments

  • edited April 2005
    It's too bad Corsair announced their PC6400 DDR2 800 just 2 days ago...sorry Kingston.

    From Corsair's press release dated 4-6-05;
    800MHz; CM2X512A-6400 Cas 5-5-5-12 TWIN2X1024A-6400 Cas 5-5-5-15
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited April 2005
    wow, I realize the memory frequency is very high at 400MHz x2, but those timings are very high. 5-5-5-12 :eek:

    I'd like to see some benchmarks. I would have a feeling that good quality PC4000 memory with 2-2-2 timings would come pretty close :D
  • edited April 2005
    I'm getting in the neighborhood of 6300mb/s with my dual channel PC4200@ 273mhz fsb 1-1.

    It'd be nice to see what that stuff would do in a dual channel setup with the ram running faster than the fsb which the new chipsets from Intel support.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    lemonlime wrote:
    wow, I realize the memory frequency is very high at 400MHz x2, but those timings are very high. 5-5-5-12 :eek:

    I'd like to see some benchmarks. I would have a feeling that good quality PC4000 memory with 2-2-2 timings would come pretty close :D

    No, it wouldn't.
  • Private_SnoballPrivate_Snoball Dover AFB, DE, USA
    edited April 2005
    Their just doing it for fun now, there is not one good reason to need something like that. Those crazy companies and their speed...s
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