HellasVagabondwww.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1729&modelmenu=1

Demos_savThat sucks...2GB is enough but 1500mhz only? 1800mhz have already hit the market and they are talking for up to 1500mhz ONLY?:eek:

HellasVagabondIn theory since the memory modules are build-in they should respond abit better than generic memory modules....On the other hand we see that these modules are covered with heatpipes thus the Guaranteed 1500mhz memory isnt anyplace near to what these babies SHOULD be able to do...

TXchargerdo you really need 10ft of heatpipes???

bummer on the no extra dimm slots

and the 1500mhz? who isnt gonna o/c this? lol

BeertintedgogglesI've been wondering why mobo manufacturers haven't done this same thing except with slower/cheaper memory hooked up to a SATA controller so that users could use that for their pagefile, except normal everyday users will prob see a better benefit from ASUS' implementation with better system memory speeds.

DippyskoodlezRam doesn't behave like a hard drive in that you can treat it like a removable disk. (It would require a DDR/DDR2/DDR3 memory controller)

Plus, if you lose power, your pagefile goes POOF.

A hard drive does not.

BeertintedgogglesIf it was hooked up (designed directly into the mobo itself) to the SATA controller you could it use just like any other SSD or I-RAM drive. Anything from another onboard battery to using high-speed flash memory could easily overcome the loss of power issue.

The Xilinx FPGA has three primary functions: it acts as a 64-bit DDR memory controller, a SATA controller and a bridge chip between the memory and SATA controllers. The chip takes requests over the SATA bus, translates them and then sends them off to its DDR controller to write/read the data to/from memory.

OnBoardBoy that's cool, as long as 2GB is enough for you =) It screems for a crazybig CPU cooler, that blows air on all of that heatpipejungle :)