Conclusion

Finally ! These test will not have been the most convenient and easy to handle, but the adventure was extremly interesting and we learned lot of things. One of those things will certainly be the fact that the DDR400 is not only the ultimate evolution of the todays DDR-I technology, but that this also introduces a completely new range of technologies making it possible to have a fore-taste of what will be our tomorrow's technology. Effectivly now some manufacturers already planned to support the DDR400, it's more likely that this will be the first step introducing the new upcoming performance standards of the DDR-II. And today we can clearly state, that Rambus arguments as they would be superior in performance has no sense anymore. Especially on the data troughput, there where the conventionnal DDR333 still offered some advantage to the Rambus, the DDR400 really increases the performance level completely beyond the reach of Rambus, and this at allmost any level. This explains why Rambus is planning to release his PC1066 RDRAM…

On the other hand, the two major CPU manufacturers are not equally armed in front of these upcoming high-performance memories. When Intel is able today to take full advantage out of these memories, it will not be the same situation at AMD. We have also some difficulties to understand how the Athlon EV6 bus could handle the brutal power offered by those new memory modules. In the main time, SiS has already with his SiS 648 developped a Pentium IV technology based chipset, wich will offer full support for this brandnew DDR400 technology. VIA will probably need a few months more before it will be able to release such a chipset.

Hereby Kingmax has also clearly shown his mastership in high-performance technologies, with offering this cutting edge memory technology, Kingmax surprised many extremly respectable manufacturers. Most of them where obviously surprised about their ability to design, build and deliver such a high-end technology today. Also many doubts has raised about this module, as many manufacturers aren't ready today to deliver this technology into the market, they had some difficulties to admit that it was technically possible to have a fully functional module, certainly for these new DDR400 modules. Now let's hope that it won't be a problem either to get these modules soon into your shop arround the corner, and of course (if possible) at a reasonable price

• Greetings

We wish to render thanks, to all the people without who this article wouldn't have been possible :

• Kingmax Semiconductor Taiwan : for the fact they accepted to produce these few DDR400
• Kingmax Europe : for being so kind to answer all of our questions and forwarding our requests to Kingmax TW
• AMD France : for the loan of a Athlon XP/MP
• Bacata : for the loan of the Epox 8KHA+ and supporting us in our relation with AMD France.
• Intel France : for the loan of the Intel Confidential
• Franck : for the benchmark he developped for us and his logistic support :-)
• NiTRo : for the WaterBlock wich allowed us the realise the AMD test
• ADF-Micro : for there Graphical cards and all the other cards they supplied to us.
  

AAnd of course all those who wanted to stay anonymous, or that I simply forgot, and the manufacturer who was so kind to open his laboratory to do our performance testings