News - Kingston releases enthusiast DDR3 laptop memory with XMP support

[HEXUS]

Aggressive latencies and one-touch settings via XMP profiles.

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[scaryjim]

Does DDR3 bring any other advantages beyond simply pushing the maximum theoretical speed upwards? Because if not, these will presumably run with identical performance to DDR2 1066 @ 5-5-5-15? I'd've thought that if you're getting an enthusiast laptop with DDR3, you'd want something a bit faster!

[Tarinder]

Does DDR3 bring any other advantages beyond simply pushing the maximum theoretical speed upwards? Because if not, these will presumably run with identical performance to DDR2 1066 @ 5-5-5-15? I'd've thought that if you're getting an enthusiast laptop with DDR3, you'd want something a bit faster!

The one benefit - which may be lost on desktop-replacement laptops - is the fact that DDR3 run withs 1.5V compared to DDR2's 1.8V. Also, I expect DDR3 SO-DIMMs to scale frequency reasonably quickly once a greater number of laptops use the standard.