what kind of memory to buy?

[SlowPerson]

now some of my friends were having a dispute on what kind of memory to buy and for the price ........... one friend was saying that SDram is better then DDR? what is the best in your opinion for the cost and effectiveness..... specially if you play alot of video games on the pc 🙂 thanks for your time.

 

[Evadman]

DDR is faster, and will be mainstream until some 333 bus speed CPU chips come out, then they will just up the speed of the DDR ram. Sdram was mainstream for about 3 years or so, they just kept upping the speed. ( 66 to 100, then 133, and for OC'ing 150+ ) Same is likely to happen with DDR. DDR 333 is already available.

 

[AndyCunningham]

Partly it depends on the system. Using a P3, since the FSB is only SDR 100 or 133 MHz then you can get DDR but then the bottleneck will be the FSB bus. However, AMDs DDR FSB means that such a platform can make real use of DDR memory, and the QDR FSB of the P4 platform can make even more use of it.

 

[rimshaker]

In a nutshell, DDR performance becomes more obvious as the cpu clock speeds get higher. At first, there was the argument that the performance gap between DDR and SDRAM was minimal. But that was when mainstream cpu's were just hitting the 1GHz range. Take a look at the benchmarks now, and you can clearly see that with cpu's around the 2GHz range, the performance gap is huge! With the high clock speeds available today, SDRAM is totally left in the dust, and even RDRAM is making a slight comeback too.

As for the memory prices... well, the bottom was around the Nov/early Dec. range. Since then, prices have actually doubled or more. Nonetheless, the price gap is small between DDR and SDRAM.... go for DDR.

 

[chickendinner]

ddr is not the best, but sdram just plain blows

 

[MrDudeMan]

if ddr is not the best then what is? certainly not RD

 

[littlezipp]

Go with DDR, it is faster and cheaper than Rimm. Also, stick with Crucial or another big name.