Tech PC take a look at DDR-II and its implications for the industry.

So for the bandwidth hungry Pentium 4 DDR-II could produce some tangible benefits, especially as processor clock speeds scale towards 4GHz and above. It is going to be interesting to see how the increased latencies affect performance. If the memory accesses are largely sequential reads with minimal switching between columns, such as in video encoding then performance should be significantly boosted thanks to the increased bandwidth, however in situations where the required data is spread through out the modules, such as in server applications, the increased latency is going to come into play and rain on Intels parade.

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