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| An article on Static and Dynamic RAM. |
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| Peter Taylor:
Static RAM is significantly faster than Dynamic RAM. Dynamic RAM is significantly cheaper to manufacture than Static RAM. I would rather pay significantly more for a fast computer with Static RAM, but as a consumer, I am not given that option. Manufacturers would rather sell me an expensive slow computer with a large profit margin, than a useful fast computer with a low profit margin. |
| rob77:
you do have static RAM in your computer it's the registers in the CPU and also the cache :) and trust me you would definitely not want to pay for a 16GByte of static RAM ;) |
| Ed.Kloonk:
Another thing to appreciate is just how valuable the CPU's cache memory is, which speeds up tasks enormously. Additionally, the memory speed limit depends on the memory bus speed. Unless you are running memory that is a slower speed than the max bus speed, what ever the technology the ram is, the speed is governed by the speed of the memory bus. |
| Peter Taylor:
I would rather a computer that had no DRAM. Internal or external. Static RAM also uses significantly more space. I would rather use a fast computer that used more space, and I would happily pay the price for the speed (of course this is something that I should not pay extra for. This should be standard). |
| MK14:
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