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The NEW SOYO SY-P4S DRAGON Ultra Mobo is coming to a P4 near you!
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Explain yourself patriot.Kool_Aid said:
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DDR is the next step in the refining process,and my mistake the new o.s. is Whistler II. Sorry about the mix-up.
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On a benchtest conducted by PCWorld to test SDRAM,DDR and RDRAM and it went like this: The RDRAM system outran the old SDRAM only by small margins but the DDR system outpaced both systems on most of the test, including a multi-media task an area where the RDRAM was expected to be victorious,not. The DDR system completed the AutoCAD 2000 test in 7 min. and 18 secs. while the RDRAM sytem finished in 9 min. and 1 sec.
Like you stated pros. like the p4 and RDRAM combo because Intel and Rambus designed the techno to complement eachother. And like you said the RDRAM has dual-channels and has an FSB that supports transfers up to 3.2 GB as the P4 while DDR can support 2.1 GB at most. So now you might be asking yourself how the DDR system beat the RDRAM system? Well acorrding to Senior analyst Kevin Krewell of M.D.R, the RDRAM's large bandwidth may not offer much benefit with standard business apps. yet it comes in handy for processing multimedia which used large chunks of data, but it is not fully utilized in business apps., which use short burst of data. In handling those short busts of data, RDRAM suffers from its biggest drawback, longer latency, which is the amount of time between when a CPU asks for data from memory and when it actually arrives. Now don't get me wrong I like RDRAM too, my current system is running 1 Gig of RDRAM so money is no barrier for me. It is performance that counts.
Like you stated pros. like the p4 and RDRAM combo because Intel and Rambus designed the techno to complement eachother. And like you said the RDRAM has dual-channels and has an FSB that supports transfers up to 3.2 GB as the P4 while DDR can support 2.1 GB at most. So now you might be asking yourself how the DDR system beat the RDRAM system? Well acorrding to Senior analyst Kevin Krewell of M.D.R, the RDRAM's large bandwidth may not offer much benefit with standard business apps. yet it comes in handy for processing multimedia which used large chunks of data, but it is not fully utilized in business apps., which use short burst of data. In handling those short busts of data, RDRAM suffers from its biggest drawback, longer latency, which is the amount of time between when a CPU asks for data from memory and when it actually arrives. Now don't get me wrong I like RDRAM too, my current system is running 1 Gig of RDRAM so money is no barrier for me. It is performance that counts.
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Yeah R.N.! I have also read that Artical in PC WORLD MAGAZINE too and it says that DDR SD-RAM has a way lower latency than RD-RAM. That's what gives it an advantage. 
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Like I said I like both types of memory for different applications and maybe the latancy problem will be fixed in the not-so-far future. For now thou, the best is DDR as far as ability and reliability. Yet in the end they all work at acceptable rates, if anything the thing to do is get more memory to make life better.
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I'd like to see a two-way interleaved SD-ram chipset for the P4=)
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Now theres an idea.
