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**Marcelo** · 31 January 2001, 02:43

I would thought your radeon 32ddr should be sufficient for the opengl work. Anyway, let other people help you on that matter.
I also from UK so I can tell you about DDR ram, there were three types of DDR I know of so far in UK, PC1600 cost~£70, PC2100 3.3V cost~£125, PC2100 2.5V cost~£175, all of them are 128Mb module. However, they are out but rare to find in UK,and since I am not at home until weekend then I cannot tell you which company's web page to look for, sorry about that.

**HedsSpaz** · 31 January 2001, 07:16

Oracle, if you plan on really TRULY getting into serious OpenGL work then you need to get a card from these guys. http://www.3dlabs.com

The Oxygen series of cards is designed from the ground up to accelerate OpenGL work. Generally speaking these cards are designed more for CAD work and the like, but it's something you should look into at least. Among other reasons because the card are FULLY OpenGL compliant. None of the mainstream cards are so far as I know (Matrox, ATI, nVidia, 3dFx).

Thats just something to keep in mind. As for DDR Ram, I don't know how much luck you would have finding a motherboard that could support it anyway. There really isn't much available just yet.

Good luck with whatever you choose though.

Ian

**roadie** · 31 January 2001, 07:35

if you want ddr ram check out www.overclockers.co.uk they have crucial ddr ram for exactly the same price as sdr ram, so its a pretty good deal.

**Kruzin** · 31 January 2001, 11:37

Relocated to the General Hardware forum...

**paulcs** · 31 January 2001, 13:33

Crucial was only selling PC1600 DDR SDRAM last time I checked. They have engineering samples of PC2100 available to those who qualify, but it's not readily available. I assume Micron will get the PC2100 show on the road when DDR motherboards become a little easier to find.

Performance differences between PC1600 and PC133 (on a VIA KT133A-based motherboard) are, in my opinion, disappointingly small. In addition, cpu/memory bus ratios on the AMD-761 motherboards I've looked into are synchronized. That could mean a RAM upgrade the next time you upgrade CPU's.

Within the next couple of weeks, we should start seeing the Athlon-C (133/266 MHz FSB) and, presumably, better DDR motherboard support and availability.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 31 January 2001).]

**Oracle** · 31 January 2001, 17:03

well im going from a p3 600 on a 100mhz bus so im gonna see alot of difference going from 100 2 266 arnt i???

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128mb 100mhz sdram
abit be6-2
Radeon 32ddr (biding time till the g800

voodoo 3 2000 pci (166)
soundblaster 16pci
4.3gb seagate udma 33
15.3 wd udma 66
creative modem blaster 56k ext
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direct x 8.0
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