DDR Ram

[kayden azagthoth]

Here's my question...

I'm hoping to build a new gaming rig in the very near future. I am scratching my head though as to what type of RAM to use? If I have a motherboard that supports DDR ram, should I get it? What's better to have, DDR ram in the mobo or DDR ram onboard the new videocard I buy?

If I have a mobo with DDR ram, do I need a vid card that has DDR ram in it? Can I buy a mobo with PC-133 ram and get a vid card that has DDR Ram?

Basically, what's better to have for intense gaming? The processor I plan on getting is an Athlon 1600XP.

Just need some advice.

Kayden.

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[diurnal]

Yes ddr video card will work with pc133 motherboard, i would go ddr everything though. Good question.

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[andreadebiase]

I have a ddr video card and a mobo with PC133 sdram and works perfectly..........and yes I would go with both mobo and video ddr if i could.


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[SirDrexl]

I would think that having DDR on the mobo will just make loading data from the hard drive (including storing textures in system memory assuming you have an AGP card that supports doing this) faster. It won't increase your framerate.

[iisbob]

..I would think that having DDR on the mobo will just make loading data from the hard drive (including storing textures in system memory assuming you have an AGP card that supports doing this) faster. It won't increase your framerate...

By increasing the speed of data transfer ( this includes graphics textures to your video card) this does improve your framerate, just consider your own statement, then buy a DDR board and compare it against a standard SDRAM board-you'll see the difference.

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[ranchdog]

kayden....

DDR = Double Data Ram. Think of it as a two-way street. Traffic can go both directions during a single clock cycle.

SDRAM = Single Data Ram. Think of it as a one-way street. Traffic moves one direction during a single clock cycle.

We're talking nanoseconds here.

I humbly aggree with iisbob. Mboard Mfg's have gotten the board components to the point now so that DDR can can really benchmark. With the help of new CPU designs.

Luck.

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[iropnman]

Originally posted by kayden azagthoth:
Here's my question...

I'm hoping to build a new gaming rig in the very near future. I am scratching my head though as to what type of RAM to use? If I have a motherboard that supports DDR ram, should I get it? What's better to have, DDR ram in the mobo or DDR ram onboard the new videocard I buy?

If I have a mobo with DDR ram, do I need a vid card that has DDR ram in it? Can I buy a mobo with PC-133 ram and get a vid card that has DDR Ram?

Basically, what's better to have for intense gaming? The processor I plan on getting is an Athlon 1600XP.

Just need some advice.

Kayden.

THE BEST THINGFOR GAMING IS TO HAVE ALL OF IT WITH THE DDR RAM SO THAT IT IS ALL RUNNING AT THE SAME SPEED AND NOT GETTING SLOWED DOWN SOME WHERE IN MID STREEM

[ranchdog]

iropnman

Please don't yell.

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[Bossa]

Well Bosseanna

Id just like point out that in the case of the nvidia mx400 chipset there is little if any advantage in choosing DDR memory as nvidia have limited the DDR interface to 64 bit, whereas you get a 128 bit interface if you use normal SDR. Other than this particular chipset i agree that DDR is the way to go. Good luck

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[Hobit]

Greetings Kayden,

"Here's my question..." The quick answer is that the quality in terms of frame rate texturing of your "gaming rig" is far more dependent on the quality of your graphics card than the type of RAM on your motherboard.
In the interest of clairty I'll echo what others have said: RAM types on your mobo and graphics card can differ.

You will get somewhat (not dramatically) better performance, graphic as well as other system performance, with DDRDRAM (AKA PC2100) than PC133 SDRAM. I'd urge you to consider motherboards with SIS735 chipsets. Moreover, if you're not building right-away you might consider waiting for SIS745 chipset boards which will support PC2400 DDRDRAM for even better performance.

Regards,

Hobit



[This message has been edited by Hobit (edited 01-20-2002).]

[diurnal]

UH this is 2 months OLD!!

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[waltereo]

A question about all this ..
If the memory has a a frequency of 266Mgzh, the tranfer is high
but what about of the speed of the hard drive and hard drive bus. As
far as I known HDD interface has a frequency of ATA100/133, so
my question is, isn't it unusefull to have fast ram but a low transfer rate of the HDD, I mean the bottle neck in a system is the transfer rate of the HDD ??????

Please can someone respond if he had a good understandong of my topics ?!! :-)

Thnaks


Originally posted by kayden azagthoth:
Here's my question...

I'm hoping to build a new gaming rig in the very near future. I am scratching my head though as to what type of RAM to use? If I have a motherboard that supports DDR ram, should I get it? What's better to have, DDR ram in the mobo or DDR ram onboard the new videocard I buy?

If I have a mobo with DDR ram, do I need a vid card that has DDR ram in it? Can I buy a mobo with PC-133 ram and get a vid card that has DDR Ram?

Basically, what's better to have for intense gaming? The processor I plan on getting is an Athlon 1600XP.

Just need some advice.

Kayden.

[Jiggy]

hi, ive just built my new gaming rig and its hot. its a gaming babe, her measurements are.

Gigabyte GA-7VTXE mobo
40G HD
256DDR
athlon 1700xp
Geforce 3 TI500
silver mountain heatsink
350Watt psu
and cd roms

i would post photos, but shes shy. and very playfull.

forgive me, im young. Jiggy