Since DDR3 memory technology is nowhere near wide availability yet, Asustek Computer, the world’s largest producer of computer mainboards, has decided to offer a motherboard with pre-installed DDR3 modules and specifically tailored heat-spreaders. The manufacturer suggested retail price of the novelty has not yet been announced.
Asustek’s P5K3 Premium/WiFi-AP mainboard comes with two 1GB of PC3-10666 (1333MHz) memory modules already installed onboard and covered with high-performance heat-spreaders. Even though onboard DDR3 memory works at default 1066MHz, Asus guarantees that the memory can be overclocked to 1500MHz and higher. The company does not name the supplier of the modules or their latency nor voltage settings. The mainboard is based on an Intel P35 chipset and supports a variety of LGA775 form-factor processors, including future chips with a 1333MHz processor system bus. The board supports ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology, sports a number of modern technologies for tweaking and overclocking as well as built-in wireless network controller that can function both as an access point or a wireless client mode.
News source: Xbit Laboratories
Asustek’s P5K3 Premium/WiFi-AP mainboard comes with two 1GB of PC3-10666 (1333MHz) memory modules already installed onboard and covered with high-performance heat-spreaders. Even though onboard DDR3 memory works at default 1066MHz, Asus guarantees that the memory can be overclocked to 1500MHz and higher. The company does not name the supplier of the modules or their latency nor voltage settings. The mainboard is based on an Intel P35 chipset and supports a variety of LGA775 form-factor processors, including future chips with a 1333MHz processor system bus. The board supports ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology, sports a number of modern technologies for tweaking and overclocking as well as built-in wireless network controller that can function both as an access point or a wireless client mode.
News source: Xbit Laboratories
He's right. This stupid thing will probably go for around $500-600 considering DDR3 is no less then $400 for 2GB plus Asus boards are overpriced as it is.
So basically, you'd spend a fortune on a premium mobo, and then can't expand it beyond 2Gb, cos the picture shows no sockets? This is made of lose; I'd expect that most people would rather have 4Gb of slightly downclocked memory even if the 2Gb could have gone to 1500.
First, I would have used the nVidia 680i chipset to provide SLI support and a third PCIe 16x slot. High-performance gamers are all going with the nVidia 8800 GTX and GTO cards, and a lot of them are running in SLI.
I suppose it's nice that they offered Crossfire support, just so long as they also offer the same design with SLI support.
Second, I would offer a version that has 4GB of DDR3-1600 pre-installed.
Finaly, I'd offer an "Extreme" version with a waterblock available to help cool all those heatpipes, for watercoolers who regularly push the system past what passive cooling can handle. They already did it on the Blitz Extreme.
See?
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Wait a second, they are offering the highest possible memory speeds possible for a premium price and you do not think they are targetting "RAM-heads".... I think your logic is flawed.
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Nvidia does not support SLI on third party chipsets, so yes it would be nice for a select few (about 1.3% of gamers), but its not possible at the moment.
Nvidia does not support SLI on third party chipsets, so yes it would be nice for a select few (about 1.3% of gamers), but its not possible at the moment.
Uhm, I know they don't support it on 3rd party boards. I said:
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Well its not under their control at all. "A version" sounded like oh they can choose to make a wifi version if they wanted..
Just ignore the first and last part of my comment then.
Slot1: 1gb onboard
Slot2: Empty/Add your own
Slot3: 1gb onboard
Slot4: Empty/add your own
Seems like a good upgrade from my P5K-Deluxe tho
Why? People have been adding RAM to motherboards for years. They would just have to loose the fancy heat pipe cooling solution on the RAM, or better yet, design it to be easily removable for future upgrades.
Slot1: 1gb onboard
Slot2: Empty/Add your own
Slot3: 1gb onboard
Slot4: Empty/add your own
That would be nice, but dream on. With the heatpipe coolers and RAMsinks (which is the whole point of having the RAM on-board in the first place) there's barely enough room on the board for two DIMMs, let alone four. Unless they go to a E-ATX form-factor, I don't see how you can cram another two DIMM slots on there... even if the second set of DIMM slots are user-fillable.
Why? People have been adding RAM to motherboards for years. They would just have to loose the fancy heat pipe cooling solution on the RAM, or better yet, design it to be easily removable for future upgrades.
Mixing/matching RAM of different manufacturers/frequency/latencies is not really preferable on the enthusiast side.
> retail price of the novelty has not yet been announced.
On the following site it is sold for 455 A$
http://www.diycomputers.com.au/product.asp?id=6200
which equals cca. 390 USD or 290 EUR
http://www.google.si/search?q=455+AUD+%2F+EUR
Cheers, Roman
You get a refund?
http://technobuddy.blogspot.com
Still though, it's a tempting board. 2GB of DDR3 RAM + motherboard=$455 - not too bad. 2GB is on the minimum side for my wants. I currently have 3GB.
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