Author: James T. Walker
Date: 07:21:08 12/04/02
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On December 04, 2002 at 08:00:35, martin fierz wrote: >hi, > >i'm on the lookout for a new PC for endgame database computations. i'll probably >be buying a lot of ram, 2-3GB. i see that there is a big price difference >between DDRAM and SDRAM. IIRC the main difference is that you get a larger >bandwidth, but about the same latency with DDR - so i suppose i'm better off >buying SDRAM for my application. any opinions of the experts? > >thanks in advance > martin For what it's worth: I purchased one stick (256M) of DDR ram to compare to my cheap SDRAM. I found no noticable difference in chess performance (just price). I did not do any extensive testing. I simply compared Fritz marks. I suspect that in the future most motherboards will not accept the SDRAM. Jim
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