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DDR vs. DDR2 - What it means to you. The contestants Thanks to our friends at Corsair, we are going to pit some top rated DDR and DDR2 modules up against one another and let you decide how things fare in the upgrade decision. For DDR, we have our TwinX PC3200XL modules which will be going against the new DDR2 PC5400 units. As you can tell from the labels, what DDR2 makes up for in speed, it loses in latency timings. Testing We first thought of a head to head comparison for these two standards when we saw that Gigabyte had come out with a motherboard supporting both DDR and DDR2 which would make the testing as fair as possible. Using the same motherboard and chipset would prevent any outside factors from influencing the test results. Test Setup
Testing
One of the limitations of our motherboard is
it's lack of DDR2 667 support. It will only support up to DDR2 533. We will of
course be running the DDR memory at DDR400 while the PC5400 runs at DDR2 533.
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