DDR vs SDRAM

[Jerboy]

I'm using 512MB DDR PC 2100 and compared to my old system equipped with 320MB of PC100RAM, I don't see that much difference. Sure Sandra says its faster, but it takes just as long to encrypt/decode stuff, compress stuff and such.

How much difference is there between DDR and SDRAM in real life?

By the way my computer is used as a productivity and communication system. No games on here and I'm using ATI XPert98

 

[AndyHui]

Real performance deltas for the Athlon line of processors lie between 5% and 15% in favour of DDR SDRAM.

The difference is MUCH larger for a Pentium 4 system.

 

[Mustanggt]

between 5% and 15% in favour of DDR SDRAM and most of that is for games and apps that use high mem bandwith, if your not using any of that you wont see a difference.

 

[EMAN]

I still use Sdram on my Iwill kk266 raid. 🙂

I'm still holding out until 166 fsb boards comes out.

 

[Mitzi]

I never noticed much difference when I moved from 384Mb PC100 to 512Mb PC2100 DDR. I always thought that my mobo (which has the ALi Magik chipset) was the bottleneck - I've heard that this my mobo (ECS K7AMA) was a bit slow when it comes to handling DDR memory.

 

[ElFenix]

tbirds take less advantage of ddr than xps.

 

[mboy]

I had a k7ama board with DDR and altho very stable, it had MUCH slower memory performance then my 8HA+ or my k7s5a. I have a friend with a k7s5a and just switched from SDRAm to DDR and was SHOCKED at the difference. The ram was the only thing he changed in the system.

 

[AA0]

For the tasks you are doing, I doubt there would be a huge difference. You are using mainly CPU intensive tasks, and memory really doesn't come into play that much.