Isn't Samsung, and now Micron(finally some competition to Samsung) the only manufacturers of memory? Everyone else just slaps their name on it right? At least that's what I thought I had read recently.
Edit: I think what I actually read is that they are the number 1 manufacturer of memory, so a lot of what is out there is Samsung with a different name but not all of it. I guess they are one of the main chip/semiconductor manufacturers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (AKA Crucial) - and the others take them, cut them and put them on a PCB.
I haven’t kept up but 32GB DIMMs we’re first shown @ CES by Samsung.
I’m itching to buy 4 of those soon because they’re cheap, and I really hate the Starship Enterprise Fins and blinking lights.
Samsung DIMMs are reliable, ugly and cheap.
Plus there’s no SPD to worry about and you can clock these suckers all day long.
I like the lowest CL Timings for super low latency, so I can only clock the top speeds by 30% usually. I just don’t do that though because there’s really no benefit with the Intel x86 design. AMD is a whole different story I guess.
I’m excited about certain workloads with new AMD 3000s that perform as well as overclocking the CPU. I’m sure ScanAudio guys or somebody will be looking into this, hopefully it’s not isolated workloads but certain games and audio apps.
I’m thinking audio apps because for years I’ve maintained that larger Cache is great for soft synths and streaming apps, and AMD seems to have performed really well at 65 watts. So something is assisting. And if DRAM + Cache clock together like the old 5775C CPUs we’ve got a winner.
My 3.3GHz 5775C performs as well as my 4790k rigs.
Intel had a winner of a chip there but the costs of the 128MB of cache wasn’t worth it I suppose.
But anyone with an i7 5775C chip will tell how great it is when you disable the GPU and use the cache for the CPU.
AMD 3000s seem to have picked up where they left off as far as cache goes.
Exciting times for audionguys.