SDRAM vs DDR RAM

Rhett

Best Buy is currently selling a 128 MB stick of PC100 SDRAM for 8 bucks... I was wondering what is the cost/benifit to go with DDR RAM as opposed to the SDRAM. I have 200 some MB of RAM alread, just want to boost it up a little more... BTW, the 256MB PC2100 DDr RAM is 45 bucks. Is it worth it (not that I have the money, but for in the future... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

Vertigo1

Yes its worth it. However, you can't just buy a stick of DDR and expect it to work with a board that only has SDR DRAM slots. It won't fit. SDR has 168 pins whereas DDR has 184. This isn't really an issue because nearly every new motherboard out there requires DDR RAM anyways! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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Keyan

Yeah, what vertigo 1 said, you can't mix n match DDR with SDRAM, even if you have one of those motherboards that has slots for either kind, you can only have one at a time in there.

Basically, all new motherboards require DDR or Rambus RAM because CPUs and bus speeds are now fast enough that SDRAM is a bottleneck.

AnlaShok

It's scary because SDRAM used to be the baddest boy on the block Hell, I remember drooling over 256K chips because I had so little memory in my system.

Check your system board and see what it takes. Getting the wrong chip will waste your time, and depending on the return policy, your money too.

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Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by AnlaShok:
[b]It's scary because SDRAM used to be the baddest boy on the block Hell, I remember drooling over 256K chips because I had so little memory in my system.

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You mean 256 Meg right? 256k chips weren't SDRAM [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] i do have 4 256k 30 pin Simms tho, they make great keychains.

Vertigo1

[quote]Originally posted by Entil'Zha:
[b]
You mean 256 Meg right? 256k chips weren't SDRAM [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] i do have 4 256k 30 pin Simms tho, they make great keychains.[/b][/quote]

Thats nothing. I've got a dozen or so 256k chips. Yes, you read right. CHIPS. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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Keyan

Well..my desk pen holder is a still functional P2 233..the heat sink on those things is spaced perfectly for pens and pencils..

Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by Vertigo1:
[b] Thats nothing. I've got a dozen or so 256k chips. Yes, you read right. CHIPS. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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Chips? Chips you say, well if we're talking chips, i've got a few 128k chips that i used to upgrade my tandy 1000 from an amazing 256k of ram, to 640k,

But that blazing fast machine was switchable from 4.77 mhz to 7.44mhz, yanno, it was the blinding speed that got me hooked.



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Vertigo1

[quote]Originally posted by Entil'Zha:
[b] Chips? Chips you say, well if we're talking chips, i've got a few 128k chips that i used to upgrade my tandy 1000 from an amazing 256k of ram, to 640k,

But that blazing fast machine was switchable from 4.77 mhz to 7.44mhz, yanno, it was the blinding speed that got me hooked.[/b][/quote]

hehe, that was my first REAL computer. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] This was back before Star Trek: 25th Anniversary came out so you can just imagine the quality of the games. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img] CGA Trek anyone? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]

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Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by Vertigo1:
[b] hehe, that was my first REAL computer. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img] This was back before Star Trek: 25th Anniversary came out so you can just imagine the quality of the games. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img] CGA Trek anyone? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]

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My Tandy 1000sx was my first intel machine (8088) Before that i had a Coleco ADAM, a TRS-80, ti99/4a. the first machine i ever used on a regular basis was a Kaypro II CP/M machine.

LIke i said, i still have the Tandy 1000 in storage up in Maine, last time i checked it stil worked, Course if i don't give the Storage people $1,200 bucks in like 20 days, they are gonna auction off all the stuff, Bleh, being broke sucks.

Vertigo1

hehe, I've still got my Commodore 64! Still works too! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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Entil'Zha

[quote]Originally posted by Vertigo1:
[b]hehe, I've still got my Commodore 64! Still works too! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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Ohh i forgot my c64 and Vic-20, i have no idea what ever happened to those.



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