The Tri Channel Let Down

With Intels new core i7 came tri channel DDR3. There was a lot of speculation about what adding all the bandwidth would do, and apparently, it doesn’t do much. There was a comparison of an underclocked QX9770 vs the Bloomfield i7 940. In most of the test done, there were incremental increases in performance, and in some instances there was a performance hit.

I figure that Bloomfield is a chip of tomorrow, not of today, when we have native 64 bit systems and multithreaded everything, Bloomfield will have its relevance. As far as triple channel memory goes, it seems it doesn’t have a place yet on the desktop market, yet. So, what does all this mean? Well, we’ll just have to wait and see until the hardware actually comes out, but in the mean time, don’t be so quick to upgrade just yet.

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