ddr1 vs ddr2!!

[Passingout101]

I was told today buy a friend at work that I should look into ddr1 over ddr2.

rig would consist of e4300, and s3 mobo!!

 

[Conky]

An S3 motherboard uses DDR2.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Beachboy
An S3 motherboard uses DDR2.

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: Passingout101
I was told today buy a friend at work that I should look into ddr1 over ddr2.

rig would consist of e4300, and s3 mobo!!

Did he also tell you to use a SCSI DVD drive, a SATA floppy drive and an AGP video card for that board?

 

[Passingout101]

LOL guys!!

he was aware that the S3 wouldnt take ddr1 and told me to look into a mobo that does.

he mentioned that it was cheaper then ddr2 and lower latencey I think he mentioned.

so, I was curious to know a little more about it, I did a search but didnt come up with much of anything really.

thanx guys!!

 

[bamacre]

DDR2 memory prices just fell. Check out the Hot Deals forum. NewEgg has some 1GB modules (DDR2 667) on the cheap. Gte two for dual channel.

edit:....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=2000264&enterthread=y

 

[Lemon law]

Advice is cheap---upgrades cost money---and if you swap out your motherboard---you need a new $100+ version of windows. Plus you throw away existing ram and buy new.

Your computer may never be a fire breathing dragon---but don't spend infinite money trying to make it into one. And my automobile can't cut it on the track of the Indianapolis 500 either,
but it gets me around.

 

[regnez]

Do any good mobo's that support C2D use DDR? I thought that they were all DDR2.

 

[Lord Banshee]

i think an AsRock mobo had mother board that had DDR1 and DDR2... not sure though...

Stick with DDR2

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
i think an AsRock mobo had mother board that had DDR1 and DDR2... not sure though...

Stick with DDR2

Yup to both. It's the Dual VSTA if I remember right, but I'm sure DDR2 is better. It pulls less power, clocks a lot higher, and has lower latencies. The only reason it seems to have higher latencies is because they're measured in clock cycles, not ns. Example, DDR400 at 2 Cas, DDR2800 at 3 Cas, the DDR2 has 2/3 the latency of the DDR because it gets in twice as many clocks as the DDR in the same amout of time.

 

[iluvdeal]

AT had an article on this very subject for the asrock 775Dual-VSTA board which supports both DDR1/DDR2: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2810

 

[Zebo]

Nothing wrong with DDR I found it way faster than DDR2 when OCed.. My 260Mhz 2-2-2 BH5 walked all over 400Mhz 4-4-4 I was playing with..but AMD is different. And 939 processors are differnt than AM2's

However I bet it's a similar result on the VSTA board if someone is will to try it.

 

[Roguestar]

DDR2 is at the moment as good as DDR1 and with memory manufacturers concentrating on DDR2 the latencies will come down and frequencies will increase. There's no point in getting a C2D with DDR1 because you'll be limited to a crappy motherboard.

 

[engiNURD]

The sheer speed of DDR2 more than compensates for the higher latencies over DDR.