PC133 memory vs DDR memory

"Joe Murphy" <mufj RemoveThis @voicenet.com> wrote in message
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 > Will I get noticably better performance using DDR memory instead of PC133
 > memory, Basically is it worth the extra cost to upgrade from PC133 memory
 > to DDR memory. Thanks
 >
I would say DDR gives you a better performance by quite a bit. if your
motherboard has slots for both types then sell the pc133 and buy some ddr
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I would say it is not worth your while. you might get a 10% increase, but
not with anything you normally do. If you have no problem now, no point
in upgrading. I had to do a bios upgrade for the DDr memory I bought
before it worked on my K7S5a, and I saw no real improvement, though I hope
I would see something when I do encoding

Joe Murphy (mufj@voicenet.com) wrote:
: Will I get noticably better performance using DDR memory instead of PC133
: memory, Basically is it worth the extra cost to upgrade from PC133 memory
: to DDR memory. Thanks
 >> Stay informed about: PC133 memory vs DDR memory 

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:06:41 +0000 (UTC), In this world we created
aa356.TakeThisOut@chebucto.ns.ca (Brian Campbell) wrote :

 >I would say it is not worth your while. you might get a 10% increase, but
 >not with anything you normally do. If you have no problem now, no point
 >in upgrading. I had to do a bios upgrade for the DDr memory I bought
 >before it worked on my K7S5a, and I saw no real improvement, though I hope
 >I would see something when I do encoding

When I had an Abit/Via board Via implemented some new protocols that
IMHO failed e.g Fast Writes and Side Band addressing for video cards
however there was one hardware protocol that worked e.g RAM
interleaving.
This in effect allowed the banks of chips on the RAM to be used in
parallel and gave my old PC 133 RAM double the speed and more than
matched the speed of my now PC 133 DDR ram.This has now been renamed
on some mother boards(Forget what it's called) but it's typical that a
real benefit to PC users has been forgotten :/
Just imagine the speed benefits for multi-tasking on my now 765 meg of
DDR ram :O





 >Joe Murphy (mufj@voicenet.com) wrote:
 >: Will I get noticably better performance using DDR memory instead of PC133
 >: memory, Basically is it worth the extra cost to upgrade from PC133 memory
 >: to DDR memory. Thanks
 >



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Memory interleaving was used on 486 motherboards 10 years ago. I know for a
fact the ancient Tseng Labs ET4000AX video chipset also used memory bank
interleaving. It's not a new concept at all.

 >however there was one hardware protocol that worked e.g RAM
 >interleaving.
 >This in effect allowed the banks of chips on the RAM to be used in
 >parallel and gave my old PC 133 RAM double the speed and more than


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