While AMD has waited for a long time to switch to DDR2- possibly hoping for lower latencies and greater frequencies, there really hasn’t been MUCH progress in this area. These new AM2 CPUs officially support DDR2 frequencies of 533MHz, 667MHz and 800MHz. The current crop of standard DDR2-800 modules have timings close to 5-5-5-15 while manufacturers like Corsair and OCZ targeting the enthusiasts have their modules timed at 4-4-4-12. Compared to the current generation of DDR400 modules with timings close to 2-2-2-5, these DDR2 modules show very high latencies. What we need to find out is whether AMD has managed to increase the overall system performance by moving to the higher frequency/higher latency DDR2 architecture.



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