Please read this article on DDR vs DDR2 (and look at the benchmarks in it too):
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/DDR_vs_DDR2/
It says:
"
Another thing to take notice of are the latencies; they (those of DDR2) are double those of DDR.
"
(I admit I don't know what kind of latencies are those ones)
and
"
When you get right down to it, for today's performance the differences between using DDR and DDR2 at 533MHz, there is little to no difference.
"
(and looking at that article benchmarks this seems true!)
so probably the best thing to do is to buy DDR 400Mhz, that is just half expensive than DDR2 and also motherboard's cost is half. So with 550 euros is possible to buy 2GB of DDR memory and a good DDR motherboard for an AMD 64 chip... Am I right? While 2GB of DDR2 and a DDR2 motherboard would cost about 1000 euros. So almost 500 euro more for the same "hauptwerk result".
The only problem is that in future DDR2 will be the choice and so thinking about an upgradeable system maybe DDR2 is better. Anyway it looks like that DDR 400Mhz is the same as DDR2 400 Mhz (the article compares DDR 400Mhz with DDR2 533Mhz).
The higher latency in DDR2 probably will erase the advantages of the fastest memory, making DDR and DDR2 PRACTICALLY THE SAME IN HAUPTWERK. Am I right? I'm not saying that DDR and DDR2 are the same in general, but that they are the same in hauptwerk.
I'm just guessing, can anyone say anything more sure about that?
(anyway I don't trust pc upgrades, I think best thing is waiting a couple of years more and buy a new pc instead of upgrading a pc today, unless the upgrade's cost is small)
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/DDR_vs_DDR2/
It says:
"
Another thing to take notice of are the latencies; they (those of DDR2) are double those of DDR.
"
(I admit I don't know what kind of latencies are those ones)
and
"
When you get right down to it, for today's performance the differences between using DDR and DDR2 at 533MHz, there is little to no difference.
"
(and looking at that article benchmarks this seems true!)
so probably the best thing to do is to buy DDR 400Mhz, that is just half expensive than DDR2 and also motherboard's cost is half. So with 550 euros is possible to buy 2GB of DDR memory and a good DDR motherboard for an AMD 64 chip... Am I right? While 2GB of DDR2 and a DDR2 motherboard would cost about 1000 euros. So almost 500 euro more for the same "hauptwerk result".
The only problem is that in future DDR2 will be the choice and so thinking about an upgradeable system maybe DDR2 is better. Anyway it looks like that DDR 400Mhz is the same as DDR2 400 Mhz (the article compares DDR 400Mhz with DDR2 533Mhz).
The higher latency in DDR2 probably will erase the advantages of the fastest memory, making DDR and DDR2 PRACTICALLY THE SAME IN HAUPTWERK. Am I right? I'm not saying that DDR and DDR2 are the same in general, but that they are the same in hauptwerk.
I'm just guessing, can anyone say anything more sure about that?
(anyway I don't trust pc upgrades, I think best thing is waiting a couple of years more and buy a new pc instead of upgrading a pc today, unless the upgrade's cost is small)