DDR Ram Vs. PC133 RAM

[BillMartin12]

I haven't kept up with RAM lately, can someone tell me how DDR Ram rates against PC133 or even PC100 SDRAM?


Thank ya!

Bill

 

[Scouzer]

DDR 2100 is about 10-20% faster.

 

[BillMartin12]

Is it a 168 pin connection or is this a whole new style of RAM?

 

[Flat]

may i point you in the direction of the Anandtech FAQs
oh biaaatch post

 

[clockhar]

You need a MB that supports DDR RAM. DDR RAM requires a new chipset (i.e. AMD 760, ALI, VIA kt66 ...). Some of these chipsets are backwards compatible w/ PC133/100 RAM

 

[ledzepp98]

ddr ram has 184 pins. the performance is about 10% better, but it's only worth it to get pc2100 (pc1600 is barely better than pc133). a few mobo's have both regular sdram slots and ddr ram slots (you can only use one kind at a time), but either way it requires a new mobo with either the ali makig1, amd760, or kt266 chipset. if you are building a new amd system, it is worth it to go to ddr.