News: Exploring the impact of memory speed on Core i7 performance

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The Core i7's triple-channel DDR3 memory controller offers mind-boggling peak theoretical bandwidth, but does the CPU need fancy DIMMs to excel? Join us as we explore the performance impact of memory bus speed, latencies, and even the number of channels on a couple of Core i7 processors.

 

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15967

 

Thanks,

 

Geoff

 

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Geoff Gasior

The Tech Report

http://techreport.com

 

 

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