512MB of DDR vs 512MB of SDRAM!

FunkyT · 4 Aug 2006 at 08:13

Would there be a noticeable improvement?

Minstadave · 4 Aug 2006 at 10:49

FunkyT said:
Would there be a noticeable improvement?

Depends on the rest of the system, you'll have to give us some more info

FunkyT · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:02

A pretty ancient PC which someone has dumped on me for an "overhaul":

AMD Athlon (around 1GHz)
ECS K7S5A VER 3.1 mobo
512MB SDRAM (board will take 1GB of SD or DDR but not a mix)
20GB HDD
32MB video card

=assassin= · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:43

The faster RAM might help a little with loading times, but not much with only a 1Ghz processor - if you can find an old second hand Athlon XP for peanuts it would be a more worthy combination.

realscot · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:45

FunkyT said:
A pretty ancient PC which someone has dumped on me for an "overhaul"

well i gues it depends on the budget really, and what they are expecting from it.

FunkyT · 4 Aug 2006 at 12:01

I think they'd be prepared to spend £150 on it.

FunkyT · 4 Aug 2006 at 12:06

=assassin= said:
The faster RAM might help a little with loading times, but not much with only a 1Ghz processor - if you can find an old second hand Athlon XP for peanuts it would be a more worthy combination.

Do you know of one please?

Tetras · 4 Aug 2006 at 13:16

For £150 you could give that one heck of an overhaul, even a modern Sempron would be big time speedy

FunkyT · 4 Aug 2006 at 13:25

Tetras said:
For £150 you could give that one heck of an overhaul, even a modern Sempron would be big time speedy

Thanks dude.

Actually it's going to be more like £100 as I have to fork out for a legit copy of Windows. The spanner who build it didn't go down the legal route.

How much for an entry level CPU, mobo and RAM?

Socaddict · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:36

FunkyT said:
Thanks dude.

Actually it's going to be more like £100 as I have to fork out for a legit copy of Windows. The spanner who build it didn't go down the legal route.

How much for an entry level CPU, mobo and RAM?

I will have a few spare socket A bits and bobs free soon, once my conroe upgrade is built. emailed you via your trust email. Athlon XP 2600+ t-bred, Corsair value 1GB DDR400 kit (2*512) and I also have an ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard.

might stick them all up in the MM soonish.