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by djsumdog 2946 days ago
This video is about the Optane devices you place in M2/nvme slots to be used as cache.

It will be interesting to see the real benchmarks on this DIMMS. We all want to know if they're comparable to real DDR4 memory.

The current market is terribly overpriced (there's some debate on if there's price fixing with the big three or if it's a genuine shortage/supply problem with the Note recalls and new phone releases). DDR4 is nearly double the price it was the last time I did a build over a year ago. :-/

EDIT: Looks like these chips will be specialized for certain server boards/CPUs and only share the DIMM interface and not protocol.

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Thanks for the clarification, I'm watching the video now and it's interesting (Optane is way cheaper than I expected) and still seems useful as a lower bound for what we can expect from the DIMM version.