Saturday, July 14th 2007

ASUS P5K3 Premium Utilizes 2 GB DDR3 Onboard Memory

Taipei, Taiwan, July 10, 2007 - Catering to enthusiasts who want the latest in innovations and technology, ASUS has released the new ASUS P5K3 Premium motherboard. This motherboard comes with the latest technologies and delivers a brand new innovation - the Turbo D3 Onboard Memory feature. With this cutting-edge feature, users are guaranteed DDR3 overclocking speeds of above 1500 and reduced clock cycle timings by 50% for random data access.

Guaranteed DDR3 1500 Speeds
Hot on the heels of ASUS's Native Support for DDR3 1333, ASUS has yet again come up with another groundbreaking technology. The P5K3 Premium provides exceptional functions and utilizes Turbo D3 - superb onboard memory features that guarantee overclocking above DDR3 1500. The Turbo D3 Design includes the Perfect T-Tree Design, ASUS's exclusive Super Memspeed Technology and the revolutionary Hyper PCB Design.

Perfect T-Tree Design
The P5K3 Premium motherboard utilizes the cutting-edge Perfect T-Tree Design to provide users with simultaneous random data access on every memory chip. What this means is that data access to each memory chip occurs at the same time, instead of conventional DDR3 Fly-by Topologies that require time to be spent waiting for one by one random data access. This reduces clock cycle timing by 50% for random data access - thereby ensuring faster memory speeds.

ASUS Press Release
P5K3 Premium Product Page
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32 Comments on ASUS P5K3 Premium Utilizes 2 GB DDR3 Onboard Memory

#26
Wile E
Power User
I just don't buy into this integrated idea. Sure, it may perform better than slotted dimms, but it eliminates your ability to upgrade. It's just too limited.
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#27
Judas
Nice idea ,but also has a down side with the memory being integrated. If the memory break's you have to change the mobo.
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#28
Frederik S
I bet this mobo is fun to begin with but wait until a RAM block goes bad :S Then you have to RMA the mobo instead of just a part :S.

But it looks really nice I bet it will outperform most motherboards to begin with, however, you are stuck with the RAM that ASUS chose so you can't upgrade it in the future to new DDR3 modules which I think is a bit sad.
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#30
demonbrawn
I think it's pretty neat myself, though once I again I will agree that the luck of an ability to upgrade makes me uncomfortable.
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#31
bigboi86
BeertintedgogglesI'm not saying you're limited to DDR2 memory for an onboard pagefile. I'm imagining something like the I-RAM that's capable being designed with either non-volatile memory or using a battery (exactly like the I-RAM, however I think it's limited to far less than 24hrs. without external power) and integrated into the motherboard. I'm also aware that you'd need a controller in order to hook such a memory subsystem to the SATA chipset. My reason to hook it up in such a fashion is that the OS would see it as just another hard drive so that it'd be easy for any user to set their pagefile to the onboard device. This would give the advantage of having a much faster pagefile than using your HD. Would it be enough of a performance boost to warrent such an addition in price... depends on who you ask. I wouldn't think so but ASUS clearly feel they have a niche where onboard DDR3 memory is attractive despite its extra cost.
Or you just could get enough memory to eliminate the need for a page file.
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#32
Ripper3
Yeah, if you're using the iRAM or similar systems as a page file, then you're wasting money that could be used to buy more RAM and something like a Raptor, or maybe even a SCSI controller and something like a Cheetah (just for example, as I don't know my SCSI drives and brands that well), which would all make it unnecesarry to have a RAM disk, unless you truly need the ultra fast storage space of course.
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