DDR4 Will Have Clock Speeds of Up to 4.2 GHz
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Currently, DDR3-SDRAM is the fastest type of memory on the market but it seems that JEDEC's efforts to increase performance while staying in the same electrical footprints may, in fact, yield a much more powerful memory than users might expect, even making speeds of over 2,500 MHz seem lackluster.
Apparently, the target effective clock speeds of DDR4 will have 2,133 MHz as the lower limit, which is already higher than most DDR3 products currently on sale.
It is the top-most limit that will truly turn heads, if what Bill Gervasi, vice president of engineering at US Modular and a member of the JEDEC board of directors, reportedly said is to be trusted.
Apparently, DDR4 will actually go as high as 4,266 MHz, and one can only imagine what type of overclocking fits and performance levels will be possible with such resources.
For those interested in a reminder, the target clocks of DDR2-SDRAM were 400 to 1,066 MHz, whereas those for DDR3-SDRAM are 1,066-2,133 MHz.
Some players on the memory front do, of course, already deal in memory of higher frequencies, but those products are both expensive and, sadly, impractical for common end-users.
DDR4, on the other hand, should be more than able to keep up with the advancements on the CPU front, especially considering the electrical footprints. To be more specific, DDR4 will have voltages of 1.1-1.2 V.
There is, unfortunately, an apparent drawback to the new memory, in the way that every memory channel in DDR4 memory sub-systems will support just one memory module.
It seems that developers decided to trade the current multi-drop bonus for point-to-point technology. This, however, will hamper system builders' ability to provide high-end systems with sufficient amounts of gigabytes.
Thus, DRAM makers will have to use multi-layer techniques to boost the capacities of the memory chips themselves. The other solution is for special switches to be installed on mainboards, to let multiple modules work on the same channel.
The first samples of DDR4-SDRAM will start to ship next year, but mass production will only start in 2015.
Tool to Delete Zero Length Files for Windows
Written by Brad M. |
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As people use there computer more and more every day, the computer will gather "junk" files, be it temporary files, zero length files, or whatever. As someone that pratically lives in front of his PC, I know that I have a lot of zero length files. Zero Length Files can be a very annoying thing, as how they have no real use at all. Here is a tool for you to use to clean up your computer from zero length files. The Easy way... Just unzip the file to the root of your c: drive, and double-click it to start it. The DOS way... Unzip the file to c:\windows\system32. Now start up (run) cmd.exe. Type in dzlf when your in the folder that you want to clean up. Doing the app the easy way will clean your whole hard drive. It might take a while, and you may see a message or such stating "Could Not Find...", but it is ok, just ignore those messages. If you happen to have another hard drive you want cleaned, you can either do it the easy way again, just copy the app to the root of your next hard drive (say, D: or E:) and double click it again, or if your doing it the DOS way, from cmd.exe, change to the drive that you want changed, and then type in dzlf again. Last Updated (Monday, 19 July 2010 20:45) Has personal computing hit a progress wall?
Monday, 19 July 2010 10:56 | Written by Fred Norris |
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The promise of cheap powerful personal computers has for the most part been filled. For those that are not familiar with Moore’s Law it was an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades. That being said we have computers that are extremely powerful when compared to only a decade ago, and those were much more powerful than they were a decade before that. With that much power have advances in use of that technology when compared to progress of that more powerful hardware keep pace?
Windows 7 Start Button Creator : Create Windows 7 Start Buttons With Ease
Written by Daniel L. |
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Windows 7 Start Button Creator is a free tiny portable tool that allows you to create a Windows 7 start orb/button with ease
Here is what we will end up with.
Last Updated (Saturday, 03 July 2010 15:29)
Changing Ubuntu's look: Windows 2000
Written by Solo-Dev |
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As any Linux user knows, Gnome has the ability to be changed, AKA Skinned, to look however you want it to look. From Mac OS X to a Windows OS to about anything at all. Today I will give you step by step instructions on how to change Gnome to look like Windows 2000, one of the best Windows OS versions ever, IMO.
Last Updated (Saturday, 03 July 2010 12:15)
Track your computer if it is stolen with Prey Software
Saturday, 03 July 2010 09:34 | Written by Fred Norris |
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Thieves are not necessarily the smartest people around. Let’s face it, someone who steals for a living most likely does not have a Doctorate (or maybe even a high school diploma. They take advantage of hard working people who may be to trusting or just have a short lapse in judgment. Most of us now use our PCs for some kind of personal business, work or other things that are important to us. It could be a simple as pictures of loved ones to important legal documents on our PCs, in either case when someone steals our PC we feel violated and could be at financial or personal risk due to the data on our computers.
Now PC owners can fight back. A new program called Prey will help you recover your PC. Prey is a cross-platform application available on for Windows, OS X and Linux. If your computer is stolen it will contact you, tell you where it is, send a screenshot of what the user is doing, show you what programs are running and even take a picture of the thief! You can also have it sound an alarm which may cause the thief to throw the PC in the trash, which may actually be the best outcome you could reasonable hope for.
Prey is a lightweight application that you configure how you like. It runs in the background and could save you a significant amount of heartache if the worst should happen. Take advantage of the stupidity of thief’s by being smart.
Clonezilla Hard Drive cloning backup software
Thursday, 01 July 2010 13:52 | Written by Daniel L. |
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If you have ever had a system crash you know the pain of loosing data, system configuration, pictures, data etc. Loosing a hard drive can be a traumatic experience .... unless you have a backup plan. Most of us know you can re-install the operating system, all the apps etc but there is an easier and faster way. There are commercial programs like Ghost, Altaris etc that will backup bit for bit all the data on your hard drives. We have found a free GPL package that can be used to clone/backup almost any Operating system Linux, Unix, Mac etc. When you restore your system the data is put back bit for bit so it is as if you never lost your system at all. The beauty of this is that you can do this over a network. So one computer can be used to backup all the systems you own. Other advantages include: Last Updated (Saturday, 03 July 2010 10:59)
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