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FCser
11-25-2002, 10:42 AM
what would provide better performance,

384 megs of SDRAM
or 256 megs of DDR ?
i have to choose because my pc only suppurts one type at a type
BipolarBill
11-25-2002, 01:24 PM
DDR because when you have that much RAM, it's speed is more important than quantity.
NDD
11-25-2002, 11:54 PM
Go DDR :)
DrDeath13
11-26-2002, 10:40 AM
Yea, DDR is twice the speed. Go DDR if your planning on gaming, or doing anything esle that requires windows. It has a higher bandwidth (the amount of data that can be set through it) and it also goes twice the speed - 266 MHz instead of the 133 MHz SDRAM travels.
Alex Iannuzzi
11-26-2002, 07:31 PM
Yes, go with the DDR-RAM and minimum should be 256 mb. SD-RAM is slow compared to DDR-RAM and also if you have 384 mb of sd-ram you really wouldn't notice to much difference.
FCser
11-26-2002, 10:55 PM
thanks for the in put
i guess ill go with ddr
yeh just for now ill have 256 megs but eventually ill get another 256
thatshould be sufficient for the time being
bassman
11-28-2002, 08:51 AM
The greatest limitation to a CPU's performance is the time that it waits for the data to come from the memory; the slower the memory, the greater the time the CPU has to wait for the data. Therefore, it'll make quite a difference if you choose DDR; your CPU won't wait so much (nor will you ;) ) - it's preferable to a slow 128MB addition