x-bit labs has posted a review on the Iwill KA266-R mainboard, the world´s first DDR platform.
The processor developers have always tended to make their CPUs faster. The higher grew the processor working frequencies, the more data were required to keep the CPUs busy all the time. However, despite the rapid development of the CPUs and graphics accelerators, the system memory didn´t seem to be subject to the same revolutionary changes. As a result, the memory bus appeared one of the major bottlenecks of the today´s systems, which brought to naught the positive effect made by the increase in the processor working frequency. So, no matter how fast the CPU got, the memory didn´t let the system performance grow significantly. Therefore, the memory issue appeared one of the most vitally urgent matters this year and most manufacturers and developers started considering the possibility of shifting to new memory types, providing higher memory bandwidth. Besides, you should also bear in mind that most modern applications, including the latest 3D-games, require more and more data, which increases the memory workload even more.Read more
