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PC100 SDRAM v PC133 SDRAM REVIEW

"PC100 Sdram vs PC133 Sdram comparison showing the performance gain you will experience going from pc100 sdram to pc133 sdram, is it worth upgrading to the latest pc133 sdram?"

Is it worth replacing your PC100 memory with the faster PC133 memory?

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD DURON 750MHZ
VIDEO CARD	PALIT DAYTONA GEFORCE2 MX 32MB AGP
NVIDIA DRIVER	DETONATOR v6.50
MOTHERBOARD	JETWAY 663AS PRO
MEMORY	128MB PC-100 & PC-133 SDRAM
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS 98 SE
DIRECTX VERSION	v8.0a

QUAKE III ARENA

FASTEST

	123
	116

NORMAL

	114
	108

HIGH QUALITY

	81
	80

PC133 SDRAM PC100 SDRAM

COMMENT - "As we can clearly see from the Quake 3 benchmark the difference in performance between PC100 and PC133 memory is very small, ranging from one to six frames per second. If you have over 128mb of PC100 memory in your pc then I see no reason to replace it all with PC133 memory. However if you have very little memory in your PC and are getting more memory anyway then it makes sense to get PC133 memory. It costs the same and in some cases is even cheaper and it will give you a small increase in performance which is always a good thing."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Default GLdriver
GL Extensions on
Fullscreen on
Demo001 Benchmark

FASTEST QUALITY
512x384 Video Mode
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Vertex Lighting
Geometic Detail Low
Texture Detail 50%
Bilinear Texture Filtering

NORMAL QUALITY
640x480 Video Mode
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
Geometic Detail Medium
Texture Detail 75%
Bilinear Texture Filtering

HIGH QUALITY
800x600 Video Mode
32Bit Colour Depth
32Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometic Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

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