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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45748

This CoolTechZone's article will help you better understand memory bandwidth and the role it plays in your system's performance. It could also save you some money when selecting memory for your system. Here is an excerpt:

ors can use JEDEC-authorized specifications yet still achieve higher-than-DDR400 data tra

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Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 335

2 things, wasn't the front side bus on the athlon xp 333mhz or if a barton 400mhz? Unless thats what 3200/mb a sec is the equivilant to. And if so then if the harddrives can at most only handle 133mhz transfer speeds whats the point of going above that? Unless maybe if you say that some of the stuff you do remains in the ram...
2nd thing was, i just recently got a amd athlon 64bit 3200 proc, the front side bus on that is 1600mhz full duplex(whatever duplex means). So if my ram is pc2700 at i think 333mhz then my 1600mhz front bus speed should be useless? I only have one stick of 512 there but i think what your saying is that if i get another 512 stick it will go a mere 1-15 percent faster? That doesn't seem to be a whole lot eh?

maga · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

man...you haven't got a clue, have you ?

Shocked

xxxx · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

neither have you obviously maga, look at your dumbass comment. Rolling Eyes

@Genoism, don't worry your system is very good, of course I don't know what video card you are using, but in terms of your cpu and mobo you are fine. Today most people will tell you 768mb is a good standard now, but to be honest, 1gb of ram is better. Upgrade your ram and then if you have a current vid card, you'll be more than fine with any new game.

Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 335

thanks, im not really worried about gaming, i just wanted to understand better about the ddram transfer speeds and why is it so important to get a mere 1-5% better transfer rates.

maga · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:15 am Post subject:

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

stop being a wanker and explain the guy whe he is doing wrong then?

maga · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

xxxx · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject:

xxxx · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:12 am Post subject:

here was a good link i had, it gives you a nice list of the standard memory speed. http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade12_02_02.asp

something on hd speed, understanding that http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/modesUDMA.html dma133 = 133MB/s and serial ata 150MB/s

add this for a comparison for video card http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQyLDI=
and you will note they used a system that most people don't have or require outside of gaming, to do a benchmark which leaves you in the end with comparing on 3dmark, so even if you don't know anything 3dmark is usually a good guessing tool of how close you are to others in terms of playabilty and quality. http://www.futuremark.com/

Genoism · Elite Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 335

cool thank xxxx, i will definately check into all those things!