Seeing as the new DDR chipsets also support normal SDRAM, are any of the new boards going to have slots for both?

[DABANSHEE]

Yeh, as we all probably know, the new VIA, AMD, ALI, Micron & SIS chipsets that are due out in the near & not so near future, all support both normal SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM.

What I was wondering then is why do none of the new DDR boards (AMD Corona, VIA VT8633, Gigabyte GA-7DX, Iwill KA266-R, Micron Samurai & MSI K7Master-S) have support for normal SDRAM as well as DDR-SDRAM, by providing 2 SDRAM slots & 2 DDR-SDRAM slots.

Sure I understand you probably wouldn't be able to use both the SDRAM slots & the DDR slots at the same time, but it would definitly ease the transition to DDR.

 

[loogie]

dunno...it'd be cool though but would probably increase costs. The premium for ddr ram isn't that much anyway...

 

[DABANSHEE]

Actually I just dicovered this, where a 3rd of the way down the page they mention a Chaintech board that supports both PC133 SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM.

 

[loogie]

Any chance of some interracial ram lovin?

 

[Rigoletto]

ANSWER:
DDR boards use the same chips as SDR boards.
DDR will be about the same price as SDR.
So: why would you bother changing your motherboard if you weren't going to use DDR??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[NFS4]

Yes there will be, and here's a pic:

Chaintech 6VJD2 (Apollo Pro 266)

 

[Templeton]

I am 99% certain that the 760 does not support sdram at all, so we will only be seeing ddr slots on those motherboards. Sorry, I don't have the time to double check myself now, I'll try to find a link later.

 

[FordLorider]

Well from what I am hearing there was a delay in the DDR 760 chipsets...maybe Templeton knows something that we don't know and maybe implementing SDRAM on DDR boards is the holdup. Otherwise if Temple it just talking @%%!, I have to agree with NFS4.

 

[RagingGuardian]

If I remember correctly the KA266 supports both SDR and DDR.

It'd be real cool if all the boards support both SDR and DDR to make upgrading easier, especially if you don't have enough cash to get the board and the memory at the same time.

 

[FordLorider]

test

 

[rmblam]

I asked this 2 days ago and no one seemed interested.

"So, I am thinking with pc133 running at 133, the fsb at 133, and the cpu at 133, how will that stand up to the PC2100 (just curious)?

All of the benchmarks raging compare a 100mhz fsb with pc133 against the DDR pc2100."


As the DDR boards roll in then I am sure we will see such a comparison. Henry said to watch for it.

 

[hans007]

personally i dont think its even worth it to upgrade, unless you can get a new cpu, board and memory all at once for ddr. Its not that much faster with current chips as it is

 

[NFS4]

I'll second that

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

The reason this question is valid is for people like me. I currently have a Celeron 333@450 w/ 128 PC133. I want to upgrade by buying a new CPU - Duron/Athlon, which will require a new motherboard. Seeing as how I will be keeping all the rest of my system, I either have an excess of 128 MB PC133 lying around, or I use it instead of buying new DDR.

 

[DABANSHEE]

Hey NSF4, that Chaintech board would be the perfect board, if it wasnt for the upside down PCI slot, being utilised as a CNR slot & the lack of an ISA slot at the bottom.

 

[noxipoo]

heres the deal. the amd760 doesn't take sdram. The via chipset does. so far the chaintech MB takes both, but its either one or the other.