Corsair PC4250 coming in Q1 2004

OC Prices had the chance to go to the Corsair "Ramguy" Presentation in the K+K George Hotel in London. Here are some of the interesting things that were revealed at the presentation :

-PC4250 will be the next product aimed at Pentium 4 platforms, and is expected in Q1 2004. -PC3200 Registered will be the next big AMD product released, naturally for the Athlon 64 platform, expected in Q4 2003 -There was a general lack of confidence in AMD's decision to go with Registered DIMMs. -If Corsairs latest board samples are anything to go by, AMD's Athlon 64 is not ready for release. -DDR-II will start on servers (especially HP servers) before filtering down to desktops. Intel will be pushing the item very hard however, although reasonable pricing will take a long time. - Corsair will have something "special" in the memory field within a month, I will be harassing Barbara constanly for more info on this - The Hydrocool, although an excellent product in its own right, is scheduled for a series of enhancements in the run up to xmas, with the Hydrocool "2" being its eventual successor - Delphi are apparently the limiting factor in this, used to 3 year product cycles, the industry standard 3-6 months has been a "learning experience" for them. - Heat spreaders make no difference to RAM performance, with an "absolute best case scenario" yielding 2-3MHz gain. - 1GB is rapidly replacing 512MB as the new "standard" for enthusiast's PCs - 70% of Corsairs business is XMS, 20% server, and 10% value series - ATi will have some exciting new chipsets in the pipeline

Most likely the PC4250 (Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is DDR533?) which will be released in Q1 2004 will be the last piece of DDR memory from Corsair before DDR2 starts to make his big breaktrough.

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