Is Granite Bay a dual DDR mobo? When is it coming out?

[davidos]

It seems like this is the thing to wait for before my next upgrade (AMD to Intel) right?

 

[wicktron]

Yes, the Granite Bay has a DualDDR memory controller. The NDA's are rumored to be lifted on October 22. Who knows if this is a paper launch, or if product availablility will soon follow. Even if boards are set to be released, the backup of boat docking due to the port strike on the West coast might slow down product availability here in the US for quite some time.

 

[halkebul]

SiS's and Via's Dual-Channel DDR chipset offerings are looking better on paper right now than Granite Bay.

 

[cmdrdredd]

The NForce 2 boards also look interesting.

I'm betting on Intel to benefit the most from this. You see...Intel is steping away from Rambus slowly but surely. The P4 is limited by DDR a bit still even at DDR400+ so the dual channel DDR chipset that Intel introduces will be faster than RDRAM and be lower cost which will only help Intel break into more markets. Also the fact that the current Athlon is really not taking advantage of all the available bandwidth from DDR333 single channel really doesn't make me believe that dual DDR is really even needed at this point. Add to that Intel's new Hyperthreading and you got a serious winner here.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: wixt0r
Yes, the Granite Bay has a DualDDR memory controller. The NDA's are rumored to be lifted on October 22. Who knows if this is a paper launch, or if product availablility will soon follow. Even if boards are set to be released, the backup of boat docking due to the port strike on the West coast might slow down product availability here in the US for quite some time.

Maybe that will help Intel's OWN Granit Bay board break out bigtime. Availability and the memory can only be run at 1:1 anyway so overclocking features won't be a huge issue.