Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 08:42:17 12/04/02
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On December 04, 2002 at 10:43:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 Cache line size is a part of the CPU, not the ram. There are a number of transitional products, both P4 and Athlon, that accept both SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. (However, I have never heard of anyone happy with these products.)
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