Rdram Or Ddr-sdram

[bambang]

Originally posted by Lamsey@29 December 2003 - 01:45
RDRAM is outdated and no longer used on new chipsets, so it would be a bad idea to get a RDRAM-based motherboard because that severely limits your upgrade options.

DDR SDRAM is much cheaper and continues to be developed, so it would be a good choice. You should select the speed which matches the Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of your CPU.

Intel P4 3.2G GHZ 533 MHZ*/800MHZ*

How to see this FSB frequency thing from the example above?

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by bambang+29 December 2003 - 01:02--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bambang &#064; 29 December 2003 - 01:02)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Lamsey@29 December 2003 - 01:45
RDRAM is outdated and no longer used on new chipsets, so it would be a bad idea to get a RDRAM-based motherboard because that severely limits your upgrade options.

DDR SDRAM is much cheaper and continues to be developed, so it would be a good choice. You should select the speed which matches the Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency of your CPU.

Intel P4 3.2G GHZ 533 MHZ*/800MHZ*

How to see this FSB frequency thing from the example above? [/b][/quote]
The closest thing would be to use 400MHz DDR RAM.

The 800MHz is actually a quad-pumped 200MHz bus, so the dual-pumped 400MHz DDR would be the best match.


edit: just noticed that 533 was also mentioned; that&#39;s a quad-pumped 133MHz bus, so DDR266 would be the best choice as detailed above.

[bigdawgfoxx]

400Mhz ram is PC3200 BTW.

[bambang]

Thanks guys&#33;&#33;&#33;

[3RA1N1AC]

early on, P4s pretty much required RDRAM in order to perform acceptably because the conventional SDRAM and DDR SDRAM standards of the time (2001?) weren&#39;t quite up to snuff...

but DDR SDRAM does just as well nowadays as RDRAM ever did.