Is PC3000 an official industry standard?

Sunny129

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i see on alot of websites and hear in alot of places about PC2700 and PC3200, but i don't hear or see much about PC3000. why is this? are there no fsb:memory dividers/ratios that work well in systems? i know that PC2700 refers to the DDR333 official industry standard, and i know that PC3200 refers to DDR400, but DDR400 is not an official industry standard yet. what about PC3000 (DDR366)?
 

Mavrick007

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Like bjc112 said, PC2700 is the fastest industry standard now for DDR ram.
Eventually you will see PC3000/3200 in the list too when faster chips are more common in yields.
 

GoodRevrnd

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Why do they use the 2700/3000/3200 as a naming standard instead of 333/366/400. Is this the marketing scheme to oust Rambus or something?
 

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Yes, it's a marketing scheme, just like PC4200 is a scheme to oust DDR. Both are based on bandwidth.
 

GoodRevrnd

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4200?? :Q I thought they were only up until 1066, or did Rambus revise their numbering (err 1066 is the clock isn't it)? :|
 

Sunny129

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PC4200 is PC1066...

1066 is the clock speed in MHz and 4200 is the bandwidth in GB/s...
 

Mavrick007

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Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
Why do they use the 2700/3000/3200 as a naming standard instead of 333/366/400. Is this the marketing scheme to oust Rambus or something?

It is and isn't a marketing scheme. They try to use larger numbers to make you think that the ram is faster or better than the other lower number, but it also stands for thoroughput of 2700M/s (or 333mhz), 3000M/s (or 366mhz), and 3200M/s (or 400mhz).

Hehe There's also PC3500 DDR out right now too which should be doing around 433Mhz so it's almost impossible to keep up with it all (although it's not a standard, it's probably just really highly overclocked).