Quit with the non-ddr advice fellas

[aeon]

What the hell's a matter with you people !?! Why is everyone saying NOT to get a ddr platform? I mean seriously, you can get 128mb PC2100 from crucial.com for sub $40.... The motherboards are equally priced as well. You're telling me you wouldn't pay the SAME amount for an sdr platform and take a 10% better performance gain? What the hell are you guys smoking? And where can I get some?!?

 

[Mac42]

Because the current ddr boards aren't as stable as the SDR boards. 5%-10% increase is nice if you're a gamer (an that's about the only time you're going to see the increase in performance), but if you're a normal user or use it for a home business then stability is key, and that's something ddr boards just don't have at the moment.


-=mac=-

 

[JaY_III]

i wish i could be with you on PRO DDR now....
i have been almost bagging people to give me the name on 1 board that doesnt suck... i want to upgrade, but to what? DDR is still very new, the chipsets are still very immature.. .
come september though, a few more chipsets are coming out... and I WILL HAVE DDR THEN

So dont buy DDR now as the chipsets all suck
Buy september when the second wave of chipsets come (they better fix all the bugs we see now)

 

[UnseenMenace]

Where I come from the DDR platform is not equally priced, it is in fact more costly, and comes with a less stable and less mature chipset.. It is also worth realizing that SDRAM continues to get faster with the latest release being recommended for FSB's use up 180 mhz , which reduces the minor performance advantage of DDR ram even further and if SDRAM continues to gain speed will it be needed ?

So lets look at the facts.. Not equally priced everywhere, not as mature chipset, minimal performance which may become non existent if SDRAM continues to gain speed, and a future that is not yet certain.

Sounds like we are smoking.. common sense !.. ..would you like some .

 

[oc jason]

Ya i think that ill wait till Abit comes out with DDRKT7AR266 or whatever they are gonna call it-thats if they make a DDR board which im sure that they will

 

[FRANK]

I currently have three socket A boards with PC133 RAM, an FIC AZ11 with a 650 T-BIRD @ default, an A7V with a DURON 600 @ 1100 (110*10) and an A7V133 with a 1.2-C T-BIRD @ 1.44G (10.5*137).

I also got impatient waiting for the next big thing with the DDR, so I've just set up an FIC AD11 DDR board with the AMD 761 chipset and 128MBs PC2100. I haven't had much time to "play" around with it yet, but so far it has performed at least as well as the A7V133. I've had a couple of different CPU's on it, the 650 and 1.2 T-BIRDS and a DURON 600, the maximum speeds that I was able to achieve has been equal to that which I got on the A7V133. The Sandra scores have been right on par with the ASUS boards as well.

In my experience this board has been a very stable and a good performer, as has the AZ11 (within the limits of the KT133 chipset and no multiplier). The AD11 has a lot of overclocking potential with the multiplier and FSB adjustments available. Given more time to tweak it, I think that there may be a bit more performance left in it.

Although I'm pleased to this point, the A7V133 still has a few advantages over it, namely the optional onboard RAID controller, and ATA100 support which the AD11 lacks, not to mention the A7V133 is a bit less expensive.

Given the still unsure future of the DDR RAM standards and the fact that PC133 will be around for the foreseable future, my advice at this point would lean towards the already proven SDR SDRAM boards, be it the A7V133 or a comparable board from I-will , ABIT or any of the other quality choices that you have today. But I think it's still a close call.

 

[bruce]

the "Don't buy DDR" advice applies mostly to those looking for a big performance upgrade with DDR over a current non-DDR setup (AMD). We tell these people not to buy DDR yet cause we know that DDR has not yet reached it's potential, "there are still a few fellas who haven't showed up to the party." That's why to these poeple we say NO DDR, for now! If you're gonna fork over that hard earned cash, make them earn it, get every little drop of performance you can get out of it!!! If you're upgrading from a 486 and want the best, then by all means get a DDR, as a matter of fact we appreciate it, cause that means they'll keep working on DDR seeing there is demand, and the rest of us can jump aboard the DDR "ship" after all the "kinks" are gone, or so we hope...

 

[n2]

i see the DDR technology going the way of the slot cpu... DOWN

nice on vid cards i guess, but i sure would'nt want a "DDR-only" mobo.

the slot mobo's are real cheap now also... are'nt they

if in the future, the technology improves,
i bet everyone will trade in their sdr... but if it does not...
where were you better off?

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when posting opinions under the influence.