memory question

[Peterson]

I am going to by a new mobo, that supports socket 478 P4 nortwood, but I want it to use sdram.

the motherboard I was looking at says it uses 184-pin DDR DIMM memory, is this the same?

if not any suggestions on which MoBo would be the best for this?

 

[Hender]

184-pin DDR DIMM is DDR-SDRAM, which is a different, faster memory technology than regular SDRAM. Any particular reason why you want to use old SDRAM? New DDR-SDRAM, and even Rambus RDRAM is much faster, and in the case of DDR-SDRAM not much more expensive.

 

[Peterson]

ok, I just wanted to reduce the cash output , I am sorry i didnt explain a bit better. I dont want to use the old sd-ram just that I didnt want to use Rambus (which is more expensive) so I knew that if i used sdramm that it waould be cheaper.



so if I understand you correctly the mobo, i want , I can use the cheaper sdram and not the rambus (which is more expensive) correct?

Thank you.

 

[Hender]

Not if it specifies DDR memory. DDR and SDRAM are different types of memory. DDR has 184 pins, and regular PC1xx (PC100, PC133, etc.) uses 168 pins to connect to the motherboard, so they are incompatible with each other. DDR, however, is much faster, and likely to be around for longer than SDRAM in the coming years.

 

[Peterson]

ok, thank you for your brilliance!