What a nice looking AMD Athlon 4 1.4GHz!

[Charles]

Sweeeeettttt....!

 

[splice]

nice!

 

[Charles]

My next upgrade:

AMD Athlon 4 1.7GHz or above
DDR mobo (Not sure which chipsets is better) with 1GB PC2400 CAS2 DDR SDRAM.
Fanless GeForce3 MX 64MB DDR SDRAM
Non Creative soundcard.

 

[johneetrash]

<< GeForce3 MX 64MB DDR SDRAM >>



lol

 

[Charles]

I want a quiet PC, that's why I picked a fanless GeForce3 MX.

 

[dawks]

Heh. Geforce3MX comes with DDR now?

 

[Elledan]

Uhm, I don't believe I've seen DDR SDRAM before

BTW too bad I don't feel the need to upgrade right now, else I might buy that Athlon 4

 

[Raspewtin]

<< DDR mobo (Not sure which chipsets is better) with 1GB PC2400 CAS2 DDR SDRAM. >>



if you get the nforce you won't need the soundcard. sounds like my next planned upgrade. although maybe i'll get a diff vid card.

 

[Sundog]

Elledan:

What are you talking about?

Here is a direct quote from the Crucial site:

256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM, 184-pin DIMM $59.39

 

[GTaudiophile]

This is my plan for my next box to be built in early '02:

ASUS or MSI nVidia nForce mobo w/266Mhz bus and on-board sound (if it's good)
AMD Athlon 4 2.0Ghz or better
1024MB of PC2100 DDR RAM
GeForce3 Ultra
SCSI harddrives, CD-RW, and DVD
WinXP

 

[bacillus]

hmm, nice packaging!

 

[TravisBickle]

synchronous dynamic is all the SD stands for.
no GF3 MX please...
... I'm shocked at how nvidia want to do away with full GF2. I'd never ever want a crippled chipset. I'm puzzled at how nvidia will want to cripple the GF3. SDRAM is out - DDR no longer costs more to make. because the memory bandwidth will be so similar (maybe with 20% slower clock) they will have to seriously cripple the core to compensate. look at how bad the MX is with any real demand like FSAA currently.

 

[00aStrOgUy00]

heh comes in a foam lined case! Something a $5000 wedding band comes in!

 

[Viper GTS]

Elledan

AFAIK, all current 64 MB DDR boards are DDR SDRAM, since they don't have SGRAM dense enough to put 64 MB on one board. Either way, DDR SDRAM definitely exists.

My GF2 Pro that I'm running right now uses 5 ns DDR SDRAM.

Viper GTS

 

[mackstann]

SDRAM is the only kind of DDR ram that i know of (dont come up with some obscure comeback about some supercomputer that used it in '87, please)

 

[DisposableHero]

crucial ram is about 56 now

 

[MrHelpful]

SDRAM can either be SDR or DDR. Why not?

 

[drewski]

<<hmm, nice packaging! >>
yeah, is that the new Retail packaging for AMD CPUs?

<<SDRAM is the only kind of DDR ram that i know of (dont come up with some obscure comeback about some supercomputer that used it in '87, please) >>
Forget obscure comebacks, how about current product comebacks? My Asus 6800 (Geforce 256 DDR) uses 32MB of DDR-SGRAM. I'm not sure if it's the density thing that Viper GTS mentioned (It needs 8-4MB chips for this so using similar memory would need 16 chips) or cost. I heard that SGRAM is costlier than SDRAM but better performing.

Someone who knows (cause it sure ain't me), please respond!

 

[Insane3D]

I have a 1.2ghz MP/Athlon 4 on the way...should be here Tuesday. I'm hoping it will o/c to at least 1.4ghz....

 

[drewski]

I think some confusion is coming from similar acronyms: SDR (Single Data Rate) vs SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory). SDRAM can be both SDR or DDR.

edit: I am not sure of the differences between SDRAM &amp; SGRAM (Synchronous Graphical Random Access Memory).

 

[Doctorweir]

SDRAM is Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory while SGRAM is Synchronous Graphics RAM designed specifically with graphics in mind. So SG=more performance

BTW GTaudiophile: Nice packaging, but win XP? Jeez...:disgust:

 

[Doctorweir]

The major benefits of SGRAM are its block-write and write-per-bit functions, which only increase 2D marginally. As to 3D applications, which are texture-based, do not benefit at all from these functions.

 

[Charles]

<< I have a 1.2ghz MP/Athlon 4 on the way...should be here Tuesday. I'm hoping it will o/c to at least 1.4ghz.... >>


Damn, Insane3D! I'm so happy for you, what MB will you use? I think you'll be able to o/c that mofo to at least 1.5GHz.

 

[Insane3D]

&quot;Damn, Insane3D! I'm so happy for you, what MB will you use? I think you'll be able to o/c that mofo to at least 1.5GHz.&quot;

I will be using the Epox 8K7A. I will be happy with a o/c to 1.4ghz...anything over that will be bonus speed.