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Normally Radeon 9600's have 128 MegaBites of Dual Data Rate (DDR) Ram. The reason DDR is so cool is because when it only running at, let's say, 300mhz, the DDR technology doubles that! Which means that it runs at 600mhz!
It makes making ram a lot easier since every 1 mhz jump is now worth two mhz.
Get it?
Most ram in computers is now DDR.
Okay, now DDR-II. It is the saem thing, except now the memory spped is QUADRUPLED! So taht 300mhz ram we started off with above, is now running at 1200mhz!!
What sucks about Radeon cards with DDR-II is that there is a lot more latency with the RAM. This is where I don't understand either. Something happened with the cards where there is SO MUCH RAM, it begins to get slow. The technology hasn't been perfected yet.
Thus a Radeon with 128MB DDR performs much better than a Radeon with 256MB of DDR-II.
I also think DDR-II produced more heat.
Hope I helped.
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