Will DDR make save/load times faster with SFP?

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:37 am

I am considering to change from SDRAM (PC133) to DDR (I have a Combo Mobo that can run either SDRAM or DDR)..
But in what way wlll this improve my SFP performance?
Better Save/load times? (This I would like)

or?

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:49 am

Come on!?
Someone MUST have some experience on this?

sinix · Post by **sinix** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:56 am

In a nutshell, yes.

Other factors do play a role here as well, but faster and more ram is *always* better.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:12 pm

more/faster memory,everything runs smoother....load times are not that different.be patient,grasshopper...

valis · Post by **valis** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 9:45 am

For save times DDR would help (as it implies the whole bus is faster) but if you have a slow harddrive attached then that might be a good bottleneck to eliminate as well.

I do believe that the bottleneck for load times is the loading of dsp code onto the Sharcs (rather than loading the Sfp.exe app into main memory). Plead with Creamware that their pci-X version use one of the newer/faster variants (with larger pools of dsp memory per chip to avoid the phase problems between chips!)