Socket-A Chipset Comparison - April 2001

DDR SDRAM is here

After spending entirely too much time in the "too expensive to be reasonable" category, DDR SDRAM has finally dropped in price to the point where it is a viable alternative to PC133 SDRAM. 

For our particular tests we used Corsair CAS2 PC133 SDRAM that makes use of the now very well known Micron -7E chips.  The modules we used can be seen below:

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Corsair also has DDR modules that we are currently using in lab, however Crucial is also the producer of some very attractive DDR SDRAM that works quite well at CAS2.  The Corsair solution, like the Crucial, is rated best at PC2100 (133MHz DDR operation) with a CAS latency of 2.5 (the lower the figure the better).  However both types seem to work at CAS2, although we have heard more success stories using Crucial.

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