AMD XP chip+SDRAM?

[cressida]

Few weeks back when I moved into my apartment, and I was running my old 700mhz (K7 Slot A) chip with the ABIT ka7 board. Well, the capacitors on the Ka7-100 just burned out and I needed a cheap replacement. I purchased the ECS k7S5a motherboard with a 1.2gig duron from Fry's and just used my 512 megs of ram (crucial pc133 cl2).

I was wondering if I were to upgrade sometime in the future to the XP chip and keep the current SDRAM, how much would I lose in performance and how much gained if I switched to DDR?

 

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[Nutzo]

Just had the same problem with a KA7 board in my wife's system. Started hanging ocasionally the last couple weeks,
and then died. The power capacitors where all swelled up. Might explain why it killed a cheap 300 watt power supply a few months ago.

I also replaced it with a ECS k7S5a motherboard, but I got the Athlon 1500+ combo @ Fry's that was $99 at the time & used the old pc133 memory from the Ka7.

As for speed, it really depends on what applications you are running. A Duron @ 1.2 Ghz with PC 133 memory will already be over 50% faster than your old 700 Mhz slot A Athlon

Switching to PC2100 DDR memory would probably give you a 5-20% improvement, but it is really dependant on what application you are running.

Seti & Quake 3 are real memory speed dependant, so you'd probably see about a 20% improvement

Mpeg & Divx video compression are a little memory dependant, and you'd probably get a 10% improvement.

RC5 is CPU dependant and you'd probably see almost no improvement.

You'd probably see no noticable improvement in general applications like MS office, or web browsing either.

Of course this is just an estimate, your actual performance numbers may vary