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    COMPUTEX 2007: Fancy 2GB of DDR3? It's on the ASUS P5K3 Premium

    As Tarinder’s spy shots hinted, ASUS are getting up to something funky. No, they haven’t lost the plot and no, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that really is a couple of memory modules directly soldered onto a mainboard. In fact, it’s 2Gb of DDR3, completely integrated into the new ASUS P5K3 Premium mainboard, including a funky bit of heatpipe cooling.

    Discover more in this COMPUTEX 2007 Headline.

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    Surely, if these heatpipes actually work, all it'll do is heat up the RAM... as the chances are the mosfets, or whatever it is the heatpipe is leading from, is much, much warmer than the memory modules?

    Over the top memory heatsinks/spreaders... and now pipes just annoy me. Most RAM doesn't need help dissipating it's heat - it's just not necessary - so this just bugs me and screams 'gimmick!' very loudly at me.

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    I'd say the same thing, but DDR3 is new technology so it might (and I really have no idea) generate more heat, it seems to be the trend these days.

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    This is really good news. Integrated RAM! And that too 2GB.

    I heard that DDR3 RAM is still not as fast as it should be as it is in it's initial stages. Is that true?

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