PC 266 or PC133 faster? 1

[ringring7]

I am setting up a computer to do some amateur video editing. I am wondering how much speed differnce there is between a Pentium 4 with 512mb of PC133 ram, and a Pentium 4 with 512mb of PC266 ram. I am asking cos it would be much cheaper for me to use the PC133 system.
Any comments would be much appreciated. ringring, ringring, ringring, ringring, ringring, ringring, ringring, .....nobody home.

 

[rew]

pc 266 is faster by a few milliseconds only!

 

[jonhiker]

agree w/rew. in your case, it won't be the speed, but the amount of RAM in the system that'll make a difference. any graphics usage is pretty intense. more RAM and have as little running in the background. note your system trya on the right next to the time? try to have as few icons(TSR's) running as possible when doing your video editing.

 

[LANmass]

I believe we may be mixing apples and oranges here.
There is PC133 SDRAM and there is DDR266 SDRAM (PC2100).
These two RAM types are not compatible, and only one will work in your motherboard. They both run on a 133MHz system bus, but the DDR (Double Data Rate) memory can transfer 2 bits per clock cycle instead of only 1. Check your motherboard documentation to see which is supported before you purchase.
IMO, DDR is the superior of the two.

 

[paparazi]

PC133 makes for a hell of a pathetic P4 system, enough said.
Buy all that power and strangling it with a narrow band width makes no sense at all. Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[PSYSMIC]

I agree. What a waste to chug your machine with PC133. You will see a difference if you load multiple image editors at once, between DDR and PC133 (assuming same quantity of ram).
Good luck building your machine.

 

[cdogg]

Don't waste your money ( and eventually time ) on a P4 with PC133.

Intel quickly realized that regular SDRAM, which is what PC133 is, bottlenecks the P4 to the point where lower end P4's actually ran slower than PIII 1GHz CPU's.

Think about it this way. The first P4's ran on a 400MHz Frontside Bus (the connection between the CPU and Chipset). Anytime the CPU needed to talk to memory (oh, several thousand times a minute!), traffic would overload right around the chipset where the speed drops from 400MHz to 133Mhz. Not good.

Now PC2100 (DDR266) and PC2700 (DDR333) memory is still slower than the Frontside Bus of the P4, but the bottleneck is less severe. RDRAM is still the power user's choice, since it usually runs at the same speed as the Frontside Bus. Of course, it's more expensive however. DDR seems to be a good alternative.

Whatever you decide on, choose between DDR and RDRAM. Don't go with SDRAM.


Just my 2¢
~cdogg

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[tyren2085]

266 is faster it the size of the buss it won't matter mutch now but the bigger the applacation the more you can use this is allsow true with more than one applacation