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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:06:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To: Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>
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Subject: Re: memory question
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Hello:

	I don't have any experience with that motherboard, but there is no
way that it will use SDRAM.  Additionally, you would not want to use
SDRAM if you can use DDR.  SDRAM may be a lot cheaper, but it runs at half
the speed of DDR.

DDR = Double Data Rate (of SDRAM)

Marco Radzinschi

E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com
AOL IM: CrackedBoy

Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386
 4:04PM  up 28 days, 32 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Nathan Mace wrote:

> if a motherboard uses DDR ram, will it also use SDR ram?  the reason i ask is
> i'm buying a new system, and the motherboard i have picked out is a Soyo
> Dragon Plus....but it uses DDR ram, and SDR ram is alot cheaper, but will it
> work?
>
> also, anyone have any experience with the Soyo Dragon Plus and freebsd?
>
> it has a CMI 8738 integrated sound card.  that does work with BSD right?
> please cc any replies to me.  thanks
>
> --
> Nathan
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