AMD or Intel

These are the RAM speeds as of now:

DDR1
DDR2
GDDR3

DDR1 is used by majority of graphics cards and RAM itself.
DDR2 is used in high-powered graphics cards like 9800XT, but sucks for normal RAM because it's latencies are WAY too high to outweigh the speed advantage.
GDDR3 is used by 6600GT, X600/X700XT, X800/Pro/XT/XL, X850/Pro/XL/XT, 6800/GT/Ultra/SLI.

T.

Thanks...I knew that DDR2 was used in higher-end graphics cards and that, at this time, GDDR3 was strictly for graphics applications. but I thought someone had mentioned that DDR3 would make its way into main system RAM...and THAT is what I was wondering about...since DDR2 has got the high latencies, it would seem to logically follow that DDR3 would have more of the same.

Thanks!

Steve

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The Only two Graphics Cards which I know of, used the DDR2 was the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB & the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra/Pro 256MB.

These cards were test pilots with DDR2, but did not perform as well as expected & ran hotter than usual, so I guess this is why ATI & NVIDIA skipped DDR2 & went with DDR3.

The AMD 64 is a genius of a design.

I guess there taking the extreme models and adding a duel core. But they have some new core technology they plan to release that will run 30% cooler. This won?t happen till late 2005 so we will see. Keep in mind for the first year your looking at a price tag of $800.00 to $1,200.00. lol.

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Hey TK+2 that sig is rude it just told me i dont belong here.You need to squash that ugly little linux nerd..lol.

DDR 1 smokes DDR2 right now .DDR2 is a waste of money 4-4-4-8 timmings what the is that?looks like my combo for my bike lock

I have to agree on that. I think Intel moved too fast with DDR2 & now it's killing them.
Intel is forcing comapnies like MSI, Asus, Abit, SIS, etc. to buy there DDR2 motherboards, but the compalies do not want them because they are sitting in the dust, nobody wants them right now.

Intel says that if they don't buy DDR2 mobo's then Intel will not sell them P4 mobo's.

I like Intel, but at this crazy rate of there's I may be moving into the world of AMD sooner than I thought.
Though the Opteron 8-Way are great. :)

have you seen the latencies on DDR 2 ? My DDR 4000 runs about the same speeds and lower latencies. why would you need ddr 2? when the only CPU to support it is the 775 and there a limited CPU next to the AMD FX and 64.

Well my PC 4000 at PC 4300 runing 534 MHz uses 2.5 4 4 6 timings. Now if they could get DDR 2 to run at them speeds it would just rock.

they need to find a way to cool them first.