Memory manufacturer Corsair has announced a partnership with ASUS in which they will produce "ASUS-Ready" memory for a new AMD64 SLI motherboard.
The first product as part of this venture will be Corsair's XMS-3500LL PRO 2GiB product, which consists of two 1GiB sticks of RAM. They are, according to the memory and mobo duo, tweaked to run best on ASUS' new A8N32-SLI Deluxe/WiFi boards.
Let us not forget, however, that the memory controller on AMD64 based systems is built into the CPU, so will the generation of Athlon 64 used make any difference to the possible timings?
People are starting to appreciate the performance benefit that can be had from 2GiB of RAM (and Corsair recently issued a document outlining the gains) but iffy 4 slot timings and slower timings on 1GiB modules have put people off. Perhaps this will change, providing you buy Corsair memory and a new ASUS motherboard, of course. It will be interesting to see how the RAM performs in other motherboards.
Find Corsair/ASUS' press release here.
