Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:32:32 12/04/02
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On December 04, 2002 at 18:19:20, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On December 04, 2002 at 18:11:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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 >> >> >>What is 64? newer PIVs are 128 byte lines. Older PIII's and before are 32 byte >>lines. > >Don't be so intel-centric! Athlon has 64 byte lines in both L1 I&D. OK... I'm not around any AMDs so I don't keep up with them... thanks..
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