DDR1 -VS- DDR2

killika666 · 10-17-2004, 10:37 AM

hey i am building my uncle a new computer for his business and he wants 1 gig od dual channel ram and pc 3200 cas2 i was looking at some earlier reviews of DDR2 and i didnt see huch of an inchease in performance do u think DDR2 is worth the money?

Sepht · 10-17-2004, 11:12 AM

no, worse latencies, and half the time its worse performance

systemerror · 10-17-2004, 12:18 PM

are you sure bout that sepht? i thought you would get better performance outta ddr2 its 500 mHz right? as long as your mobo supports it

Sepht · 10-17-2004, 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by SystemError@Oct 17 2004, 04:18 AM
are you sure bout that sepht? i thought you would get better performance outta ddr2 its 500 mHz right? as long as your mobo supports it

I am sure DDR2 has higher latencies(the time it takes to get to them) (CAS 5-7 on top end, instead of 2 on DDR1)

I am also sure their is no clear performance lead. I know i saw the benchmarks. at THG i think.. don't remember though..

Its just a tech to push Ram to be faster in mhz.. however.. DDR is going at the same pace as DDR2.. so.. meh!
http://anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=1977

Kacperski · 10-17-2004, 04:30 PM

DDR is limited mhz, it's harder and harder to push it further.
DDR2 doesn't have that problem, it is slower than DDR on the same mhz tho

10-20-2004, 12:41 PM

Yeah, no real performance difference, especially for the differece in price.

Dunno what prices are over in the US but in the UK they are too expensive for what they are.
:nxs: