DDR what a let down!

[AmdMELTDOWN]

Man, I thought ddr was twice as fast as regular sdram. At least that's what the hype lead me to believe.

 

[Arrow]

Nowhere around that!

Rob
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[Guest]

Sorry to dissapoint you Amd, but a lot of the computer industry is based on hype, Remember MMX?, Rambus?

 

[Grizely1]

Not really a letdown.... it's performance gain is quite large. It's only the bus that's twice as big (133 to 266)

 

[Kodiak]

I thought that everybody kept warning for months that it wouldn't be twice as fast. I even saw some posts here which mentioned 7% average increase in performance -- 20% is certainly better than that
The benchmarks were just what I expected -- 10+% increase overall, but almost double pure memore performance (which isn't seen in real-world applications).

Consider this: Crucial is selling DDR for the same price as SDR SDRAM.

That's 10+% performance increase for *FREE*!!! How can anyone buying a new system possibly complain?

(those of us who JUST bought our SDR power-systems hate you all though

 

[Grizely1]

Not just 10% increase in performance for free, but also new bragging rights!!

 

[smn198]

It costs about the same so thats good. Wait for the CPUs which can use it. The CPUs are the bottle neck (or at least part of it)

 

[Zenthar]

It is sure interesting for new PC buyers, but 10% increase performance might not worth it for people with more up to date systems. I will not pay that much money (new mobo + new 256 MB ram) for a 10% increase. And btw, the DDR memory Crucial sells at the price of SDR is PC1600 and not PC2100, I think PC2100 will cost much more. And another question, does anyone knows if the mobo heats more because of increased bus speed (133Mhz)?

Just on the price issue, I found some PC2100 price on the net, you can go look by yourself:
http://www.mushkin.com/cgi-bin/Mushkin.filereader?3a55df1000ed5f2c27410a0001020545+EN/catalogs/4769

But for those who just want to trust me:
128MB PC2100 195$USD (more than for 256 PC133)
256MB PC2100 395$USD (That hurts!!!)

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Zenthar on 01/05/01 09:54 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Na nothing is ever quite as good a sits hype, if you look from a clean slate it's not bad but if you are expecting the earth it's all bollox....

M

one of the first UK T-Bird users....