SimpleTech PC3700 Nitro Series Memory Review

If you have been following our memory analysis for the past month or so, you will realize that DDR1 is clearly the choice over DDR2, at least for now. DDR1 is simply too mature when it comes to directly comparing it with DDR2. However, it is not anyone's fault and we can't blame anyone for the perfomance competition between the previous generation and next generation products. Intel was right in its own defense; it had to introduce newer and higher performing products in order to compete with AMD, but apparently their strategy didn't work as well as they hoped it would. The futuristic products from Intel will have to wait for quite sometime in order to get serious attention from the enthusiast community. The PCIe graphics interface, DDR2 for memory, newer Intel microprocessors, and Intel's on-board audio chip were all introduced at the same time and none of these, with the exception of Azalia, Intel's next generation of on-board audio chips, are mature enough to justify their prices. There are simply no performance gains and the price-to-performance ratio is rather poor at this stage. On the more positive side, however, the introduction of newer technologies has caused the prices to fall on the previous technologies to an extent. Anyone who is looking to build a new system will be glad to know that the market is still going strong for the i875P chipsets with Intel's P4 Northwood core processors, AGP video cards, and most importantly, at least for the basis of this article, DDR1 memory.