As a technical exercise, I find this very impressive. However, with dual-channel and (in this case) triple-channel DDR3 RAM that already has absurd levels of bandwidth, is that extra few hundred Mhz really going to make that much of a difference in practical applications or even gaming benchmarks?
No, but for those that run particle accelerators and nuclear fusion experiments and those that cool their CPU with LN this might be worth it. And then there's rappers and wallstreet guys who make a grand a sec, it would be silly for them not to get it, although then you have the issue that those people don't bother and buy ready-made boxes, the best that's available.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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As a technical exercise, I find this very impressive. However, with dual-channel and (in this case) triple-channel DDR3 RAM that already has absurd levels of bandwidth, is that extra few hundred Mhz really going to make that much of a difference in practical applications or even gaming benchmarks?
No, but for those that run particle accelerators and nuclear fusion experiments and those that cool their CPU with LN this might be worth it.
And then there's rappers and wallstreet guys who make a grand a sec, it would be silly for them not to get it, although then you have the issue that those people don't bother and buy ready-made boxes, the best that's available.
@Wwhat
those that run particle accelerators and nuclear fusion experiments will be using ecc memory.
@vlad the inhaler
Excellent point, and it leads to the pressing question: What the hell corsair? Where's the ECC version?