Bij GamePC is een nuttige guide verschenen om iedereen die nog niet bekend is met DDR geheugen dat alsnog te maken, voordat de eerste moederborden op de markt komen die daarvoor ondersteuning hebben. De guide gaat eerst in op de basics van SDRAM en legt daarna kort uit wat DDR is. Er worden daarnaast ook wat praktische zaken besproken zoals: hoeveel performance kan ik verwachten met DDR geheugen, hoe duur is het, en hoe kan ik DDR van SDR geheugen onderscheiden:
Currently, DDR DRAM is only slightly more expensive than normal SDRAM, which bodes well for the consumer. Also, since manufacturers can test and validate DDR DRAM with many of the same tools they currently use, much of the added cost from the manufacturing process will be reduced as well.
As to the performance gain a user will see, I'm willing to bet that Athlon owners will see a larger performance increase because of the EVA bus the Athlon sits on. A 100 MHz bus with a DDR interface (200 MHz transfer) will match nicely with a similar memory subsystem. PIII owners will probably not see as large a performance leap, but the upcoming Pentium4 has some interesting possibilities (we won't even comment on the fact that Intel may not be able to make DDR chipsets due to an agreement with Rambus).
We do know that increases in the FSB speed really benefit computer performance, especially for system intensive applications (like games), and adding more speed in to the system in any fashion can't be bad.
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