DDR2 better than DDR??? (vague thread titles'r'us)

[oddy]

Is DDR2 memory any better than DDR

 

[BillytheImpaler]

It is if your motherboard or memory controller can only use DDR2. Your question is very broad. Why do you ask? What is the practical application here?

 

[oddy]

I was thinking of buying a new motherboard and i wanted to know if DDR2 will be any faster

 

[Hamoodii]

Yes DDR2 is faster

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I was thinking of buying a new motherboard and i wanted to know if DDR2 will be any faster

What's your current motherboard?

 

[Indy500]

What's your current motherboard?

And CPU.

 

[Greenlizard0]

DDR2 depending on your CPU and Motherboard.

Not being funny mate - but couldn't your thread title be a little more informative than a load of question marks?

 

[ReeceKB]

Is DDR2 memory any better than DDR

Yes its faster

 

[Defcon5]

Yes its faster

Faster operating speed, but much higher latencies, performance advantage of DDR2 is small

 

[Indy500]

Faster operating speed, but much higher latencies, performance advantage of DDR2 is small

Not for Intel systems

 

[snowdog]

Yep only amd's suffer @ high latency's, on intel based pc's latency's hardly ever matter, just pure mhz, for amd system ddr2 is just a little bit faster, but on intel based pcs its alot faster.

 

[Tetras]

Not for Core 2 Duo:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2810&p=1

 

[mrthingyx]

Yep only amd's suffer @ high latency's, on intel based pc's latency's hardly ever matter, just pure mhz, for amd system ddr2 is just a little bit faster, but on intel based pcs its alot faster.

Curious - along with the benchmark set posted above, along with another load done by that website concerning witches' magic, would say otherwise.

P4s @ 250MHz FSB w/ 3-3-3-8 timings performed no better than the same chips @ 200MHz FSB w/2-2-2-5 timings.

I think a more accurate way of putting such a statement across would be that Intel-based systems suffer less of a hit when twiddling with latencies than AMD-type ones due to the processor designs, but they still get it in the knackers.

Obviously, with DDR2-800, etc. the story will undoubtedly be somewhat different, but the margins - extrapolation required - would not be huge. At all.