A recent Optane Memory driver update added support for Intel’s budget-friendly 8th-gen Celeron and Pentium CPUs, as Anandtech noticed this weekend.

One major roadblock to using Optane Memory is that you will need a seventh generation CPU from Intel (Kaby Lake), which can range anywhere from $117 to $339, coupled with a 200-series motherboard ...

Physically install the Optane M.2 drive ensuring it's in an available M.2 slot - the drive is only specced with 2x PCI Express connectivity, so a 4x slot won't actually enable better performance ...

Intel Optane is a new brand of memory that utilizes the 3D Xpoint technology developed by Intel and Micron. It's a type of non-volatile, high-speed, low-latency memory that promises to be a lot ...

Intel are the first to get 3D Xpoint products to market, with the Optane Memory devices due to land on April 24. This will come in two forms, one 16GB accelerator and one 32GB version, costing $44 ...

The Optane drives are much faster than even the increasingly common NVMe SSDs, but the Intel Optane Memory isn’t meant to replace those. Instead, you can install the Optane Memory alongside just ...

Both are rated for very fast read speeds of 1.2GBps and writes of 280MBps. Users cannot install Windows 10 on Optane Memory; that’s not the way it was designed.