Does Socket 370 support DDR RaM?

[BestJinjo]

My question is I have a 933mhz P3 and socket 370 motherboard, currently running pc133 RAm

I was wondering if socket 370 motherboards support DDR RAM

It seems that socket 370 has 168-pins and not 184-pins required for DDRAM and runs at 3.3v instead of the 2.6v of DDR

Can anyone confirm that socket 370 motherboard do not support DDRAM???

Thanx

 

[Confused]

The extra bandwidth provided by DDR memory is not needed for the P3's. It is only advantageous if you have a dual P3 system.

Go out and get a nForce2 board and an Athlon XP 1700+ TBred B, and some DDR, for the same cost that you were going to spend on DDR and a new motherboard for the P3, and have a MUCH MUCH faster system!


Confused

 

[dexvx]

The only good DDR boards are server boards for multiprocessor systems. The desktop socket370 boards were made by VIA, and for all practical purposes, slower than SDRam boards. Single P3's and early Athlons were not designed to take advantage of the extra bandwidth, and there would be a performance penalty using DDR, since its higher latency than SDRam.

If you're thinking about upgrading, the cheapest noticeable solution would be a tualatin celeron (if your board supports it, or else have a friend mod your board), and run it at 133 FSB.

 

[ChefJoe]

Hrm, I recall intel trying to sell p3s with rdram for a while, but they didn't go into DDR support for years. I have no recollection of any Sis chipsets or whatnot that did ddr with p3s. FWIW, everyone was saying the rdram with the p3 was a waste, even back in teh day.

 

[RanDum72]

SIS and VIA had chipsets for socket370 that supported DDR. Via had the 694T series and SIS had the 630-series. Both could take SDRAM and DDR. The only time I noticed a difference was when I used a Tualatin-based PIII (133fsb, 512k cache) on an ECS board that takes SDRAM/DDR. But the improvement over PC133 SDRAM was small.