Text 6187, 79 rader
Skriven 2006-06-02 02:41:34 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 6172 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: Re: profiling, ftp  was, Re: am2
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-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

Fri Jun  2 02:15:38 CDT 2006

 KP> skimming a sunday dallas newspaper (print version) yesterday showed
 KP> mostly ddr, but compusa (we got it. we get it.) has more ddr2
 KP> pieces.

 MK> Sounds good.  How much and what brand?  The 512M Crucial DDR2
 MK> PC-4200 (533MHz) cost $65 Canadian.
sounds pretty good pricing, compusa has 512/533 ddr-2 at $39 a piece but that's
after a $15 mail-in rebate and is listed as notebook type. 1024/533 ddr2
desktop is $109 or so, and $79 after the mail-in rebate. it was interesting to
notice the varieties of pc-2700+ ram available seemed to be a bit slower for
the notebook than the desktop varieties but both ddr-2 speeds would seem to be
the same, at least numerically.

 KP> no ecc in the newspaper nor p3, that i noticed

 MK> No surprise here.  It tends to be more expensive and is for server
 MK> boards.  The DDR based server boards usually require 2.5V ram as
 MK> opposed to the regular 1.8V on PC's.
faster at the higher voltage, i guess, but like with ddr/-2 you may need the
frontside bus speed for it to deliver fully. i've read a lot of times in the
past the chips are identical in the various speeds, at manufacture, just tested
then labelled as suitable.

[ extreme to extreme ]
 MK>> is total waste of money methinks and the money would be better
 MK>> invested elsewhere.  KP> there's an elsewhere? :)

 MK> For sure.  You have to look for it a tad further then compusa
 MK> though.  I did see a few pga775 (Intel) based boards the use ddr2
 MK> up to the 800MHz variety (400, 533 and 800) so I was right that
 MK> there are other boards out there that take ddr2 and aren't all amd
 MK> based. compusa should have a few of those kicking around.
yep. i figure if they don't it's available from store back stock or order. i
overheard them checking one of the instore computer terminals for availability
of some software at another location, one time in the 90s, i guess, or maybe it
was the warehouse.. i think the computer said it was there, but they called
confirmatively.

 KP> maybe not (yet?) processor instructions, though i guess they often
 KP> interact.

 MK> We'll see when I get that far. :-)
profiling doesn't make it worse afaik :)

 MK>> Maybe today.  KP> where's it comin' from?  {gigabyte sempron64}

 MK> I am not sure.  I am getting it through a local dealer in Ladysmith
 MK> and apparently the board is in but as of yesterday the cpu still
 MK> hadn't arrived. He emailed me to say he would check so perhaps
 MK> today.
looks like you got the board from reading ahead.

 KP> does your mail software use mail priority headers (bulk, normal,
 KP> etc)?

 MK> Nope.  Still picking away at it.  Do you mean email of the fido
 MK> stuff?
no, internet. did fido ever support that? i was thinking maybe the ftp by mail
servers might have used it to some gain.

 MK>> I don't have any of it and have only seen one card (gigabit MK>>
 ethernet) that interested me but that would be better to stick MK>> to
 pci or perhaps go 64-bit pci instead.  KP> hm.

 MK> Yep.  Far more universal then pci-e.  None of the machines
 MK> currently running here have pci-e ... or 64-bit pci now that I
 MK> think about it.  They all have 32-bit pci though so I think I'll
 MK> stick to that.
probably an adaptor for pci-e to pci/-64 should be feasible, and might be a
good thing, dunno.

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