14 DAY TRIAL // Memory maker Kingston was also present at this year's Intel Developer Forum where it showcased a pre-production sample of a 64GB quad-channel memory kit the company plans to release after Sandy Bridge-E hits the market.
The kit that was on display during the conference includes eight high-performance DDR3 memory modules, each holding 8GB of RAM, and working at a 2400MHz base frequency with some yet-unknown timings.
For the products on display at IDF, the company has utilized the current generation of DRAM chips, but at launch time these are expected to be swapped with newer chips.
The reason for that decision is that Kingston wants to cut down the price of the memory kit from the current $2200 estimated by the company at this time.
After the migration is complete, the retail price tag should hover somewhere between $1200 and $1500, just as it was the case with the first tri-channel memory kits to arrive in 2009.
During the conference, Intel's motherboard partners have displayed quite a few solutions built around the X79 Express chipset, but only a handful of these featured the eight DIMM sockets required for installing Kingston's 64GB memory kit.
These came from Intel, MSI and Gigabyte, the latter also providing the X79-UD5 used by Kingston for its demo system.
Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors, and the motherboards accompanying them, are expected to launch in mid-November. The initial CPU lineup will include three models, two of these featuring a six-core design while the third packs just four computing cores.
The most powerful chip of the three is called the Core i7-3960X and it sports six processing cores with HyperThreading support, has a base frequency of 3.30GHz and a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz as well as 15MB of Level 3 cache memory.
All the processors sport a quad-channel DDR3 memory controller that can officially support DDR3 speeds up to 1333MHz. (via AnandTech)