Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:43:59 12/04/02
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On December 04, 2002 at 10:21:08, James T. Walker wrote: >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 I see a big difference. 64 versus 32 bytes cache lines matters a lot for DIEP and all software that doesn't fit within L1 cache. Best regards, Vincent
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