What is faster??

[Kaieye]

Would the new ECS k7s5a with the SIS 735 chipset with 256 megs of DDR or 512 megs of SDRAM? I figure that the price of these memory would be about the same...

 

[Shmorq]

The price of DDR and normal SDRAM are the same if you buy it from Crucial. Therefore, I would go with 512MB of DDR SDRAM.

But if you look at 512MB SDRAM vs. 256MB DDR SDRAM, I would guess the DDR would be marginally faster in normal stuff, but for heavy, heavy photoshop work or things like that, the extra 256MB would be very useful so the 512MB of SDRAM would edge half the amount of DDR SDRAM.

 

[Athlon4all]

agreed, get your RAM from Crucial. They're the best, plus SDR and DDR is the same price. Get DDR.

 

[Kaieye]

I live about 45 minutes from Fry's and I could have bought last week 512 megs of SDRAM vs. 256 megs of DDR for about the same price...

What would you buy??

And why?

 

[xtreme2k]

For running benchmarks, get the DDR

but for general usage with WinNT/2k/XP, the 512MB is actually better of because it gives the OS to cache nearly everything you do. Although it is slower than DDR in benchmarks, loading from SDR cached is way faster than loading from hdd which you need to if u got 256MB DDR.

however, I believe the SIS735's SDR performance is sub-par compared to the KT133A.

 

[johndoe52]

DDR!!! Go with the ddr...you probably won't need more than 256 megs of ram anyways. Although it'd be nice to have.

 

[alpha88]

Sis 735 SDR is FASTER than kt133a and its DDR is faster than 760 and kt266 and ali MaGik (not kt266a)
Ram

Free shipping, buy it there

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Even if I live just 1 min away from Fry's,
I won't buy from Fry's,
it takes a lot of time for waiting at the check out line,
they sell generic memory,
the price is normal, not a big deal,
heard so many horrible stories about Fry's memory here.

Crucial pc133 or ddr 256MB is just $34 shipped.
This week, Dell is having promotion of 25% off memory or harddisk/cd-rw,
you can get Kingston valueram pc133 256MB at $27 shipped.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I agree with KingofComputer. I will never buy RAM from Fry's because they seem to offer good prices in their ads, but it is only on generic garbage RAM. If you want name brand stuff, you will end up paying more than if you get it straight from Crucial, so buying direct from Crucial is the way to go. Fry's sale prices are usually only a little cheaper than the sale prices at other stores where they are actually selling name brand RAM with lifetime warranties like Kingston, PNY, or Viking.