News - A-DATA and ASUS get together to demonstrate Intel Nehalem's DDR3 performance

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Remember A-DATA's recently-announced tri-channel DDR3 kits for Intel's X58 motherboards? Well, here's a set of early performance figures.

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WOW is all i can say!

Very nice, but there's something I don't understand: Now the memory controller has moved to the CPU, why do you need such immense cooling of the northbridge and southbridge?

I cant wait till after christmas + upgrade time :drool:

The motherboard is still a extreme overclocking board and has crossfire/(SLI?) so you expect that kind of cooling included when you pay the premium.

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Originally Posted by kalniel

Very nice, but there's something I don't understand: Now the memory controller has moved to the CPU, why do you need such immense cooling of the northbridge and southbridge?

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so the southbridge and north where used has memory controlers? if so, and the cpu now takes care of such things, why bother having a north/southbridge at all in a mobo?

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Originally Posted by j.o.s.h.1408

so the southbridge and north where used has memory controlers? if so, and the cpu now takes care of such things, why bother having a north/southbridge at all in a mobo?

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Because if you didn't have them you wouldn't have any ports or slots to plug everything else into..

The southbridge never had a memory controller, its for things like floppy controller, HDD controller, USB controller etc. Its been a fairly light-weight chip for a while now that needs very little cooling on the majority of implementations.

The northbridge will still have a fair amount of work to do, as it will probably still interface the PCI-Express bus to the on-die memory controller.

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Originally Posted by kalniel

Very nice, but there's something I don't understand: Now the memory controller has moved to the CPU, why do you need such immense cooling of the northbridge and southbridge?

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Why do you need such a big heatsink anyway (it's not a question). It's just stupid marketing, as they never work anyway. A £2 Zalman normally does a better job than them, and at least with ICH8 you didn't need a heatsink at all on the southbridge, yet still they loaded as much metal as possible on them.

Love how the ASUS owned company have had a stab at Gigabyte for unnecessarily using up our copper reserves, yet ASUS themselves probably use about 3 times more per board than any other manufacturer (unless of course it's just copper painted, as is often the case...), at least until MSI came along with their stupid loop-the-loop things.

Can you tell this is a pet hate of mine?

http://img.hexus.net/v2/news/a-data/...-asus-ddr3.jpg


thats a poorly cropped photo, and there seems to be something obscuring the view... shame :P

Lol! :lol: some kind of motherboard eh!