DDR systems

[jlowell]

Anybody been looking at the reviews and tests on any of the new DDR boards that have come out. Are they much faster or is it just a small % increase.

The tests I've seen don't look like the speed increase is that much but I know so little about the tests I have seen I can't really interpret.

I work with really large photoshop files and was wondering if a DDR system would be worth the extra cash. Macs are so **** expensive.

[Wilan Wong]

I'll suggest that you go towards a DDR platform anyway, since the DDR would make the SDRAM obselete, so you would be more "future-proof" on going with a system with a DDR. There wouldn't be much difference in performance anyway, in my knowledge, Photoshop needs more memory, rather than the memory speed first. So if you deal with large files go for at least 384 to 512Mb of RAM.. not sure how much the DDR supports right now.

[Wilan Wong]

Just wanted to repharse what I meant.. I meant that you should consider your memory amount first, before considering a SDR or DDR platform.

[jlowell]

Good point. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

[Piccolo]

Looking at recent reviews on DDR systems vs SDR systems, DDR shows a 10% to 15% increase over SDR in comparable systems. Check out http://www.hardocp.com where they've done a KT133 vs KT133A vs DDR article.

I forgot to mention that the above is a comparison check of an AMD T'Bird system. If you want to look at how Intel fares with DDR, check out the following link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/mainboards/apollo-pro266.html


[This message has been edited by Piccolo (edited 01-11-2001).]

[AndreRIO]

what is ddr?

[jlowell]

Aha...yes thanks Piccolo. just what I was looking for.

AndreRIO, DDR stands for double data rate. It lets sdram run twice it's normal clock speed....so 133mghz pc133 SDRAM becomes 266mghz pc 266SDRAM

It's been used in the high end video cards for a while but the motherboards that support DDR ram are just now hitting the market.