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ddr1 vs ddr2!!

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!!
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Did he also tell you to use a SCSI DVD drive, a SATA floppy drive and an AGP video card for that board?
 
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!!
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
i think an AsRock mobo had mother board that had DDR1 and DDR2... not sure though...

Stick with DDR2
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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