Memory dilemma

DirkEDiggler

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Oct 24, 2002
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Hi all,

I have an Athlon XP 1800+ and a GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB. I am using an ASUS A7V133 and therefore, I have SDR memory (768 MB ram). I would like to know how much I would benefit in UT2K3 if I change my motherboard for one that support DDR memory. I think my memory is an important bottleneck but I just don't know how much it really is.

I would like to have some links or some information about this subject. If the performance increase is important, I will upgrade my computer.

Thanks a lot,

Dirk
 

Smilin

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Mar 4, 2002
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The info you are asking for is pretty old. It would take some digging to find the numbers that I think you're looking for.

To give you an idea though:
When the AMD 760 chipset was the only DDR chipset available you could expect about a 5-10% increase in overall system performance when moving to DDR. When the KT266A (not KT266) chipset came out we saw about another 5% boost from that. We're now up to 333Mhz (400 isn't any faster).

I'm thinking that if you go to a good KT333 or Nforce2 mobo with some good C2 DDR memory that you could see maybe a 20% jump in your botmatch framerates and maybe 0-5% on your flyby's.

I'm pulling these numbers out my @55 but I'll stand by them as reasonably accurate.

Go find some early reviews of the following: KT133A, KT266A and then a recent review on todays boards. Probably the only benchmarks you'll find that are common between them are Q3A and 3DMark. UT is pretty CPU (therefore mobo and memory) intensive so expect the results you see to be a bit more pronounced than the comparisons in Q3A and 3Dmark.
 

DirkEDiggler

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Oct 24, 2002
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Thanks a lot Smilin,

It is difficult to find recent information on almost two years old motherboard with a fairly good CPU on it. I think my best move will be to wait for a good nforce2 board to come in the market and to upgrade my motherboard and memory at this moment. I can expect to have a 20% better frame rate in UT2K3 for internet play.