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- Feb 4, 2003
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- SF Bay Area
So we're all getting pysched with Winbond launching their all new BH-4 4ns chips. Great...but some Geforce3 Ti's had 4ns RAM ages ago. Now we've got video cards with lower than 3ns, and the speeds to match. With the latest motherboards clearly being able to support speeds beyond DDR500, why don't we see super-low rated memory chips being used? I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't find any answers, nor figure it out. Sure they produce a little more heat and draw more power, but video card PCB's can handle it fine, why can't memory modules' PCB's? I heard that video memory also uses higher latency, but don't see why this is an issue either.