- Sep 9, 2001
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I just got an Intel i915PGNL motherboard, that uses DDR400 memory. Works pretty much ok. Crispy performance, so everything is nice. A little picky with memory modules (had to use Kingston, otherwise the other cheapo modules would be detected as DDR333 and cause some problems).
Anyways, I was curious on what I was mising, due to DDR II memory and 925x chipset... and I searched around at Anandtech, and found something pretty nasty.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2293&p=29
I simply nodded and sighed.
DDR II is quite the fiasco, I'm afraid. Why the push for such technology then? Besides, Sandra shows that P4 can't even use 60% of their total bandwith, whereas the Athlon 64 skt754 uses almost 95% of its available bandwith, and the skt939 uses around 80%, no?
Why would I want to get a DDR II motherboard/processor? Is there any advantage at all?
Anyways, I was curious on what I was mising, due to DDR II memory and 925x chipset... and I searched around at Anandtech, and found something pretty nasty.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2293&p=29
I simply nodded and sighed.
DDR II is quite the fiasco, I'm afraid. Why the push for such technology then? Besides, Sandra shows that P4 can't even use 60% of their total bandwith, whereas the Athlon 64 skt754 uses almost 95% of its available bandwith, and the skt939 uses around 80%, no?
Why would I want to get a DDR II motherboard/processor? Is there any advantage at all?