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I'm eventually going to build a computer for home use, mostly for the intenet, MIDI music applications, and maybe some games later on. I'll probably buy a pentium 4 chip, although I'm not sure, and will be using widows XP, more than likely. I'm wandering which type of RAM to use.

I know SDRAM is the least expensive, but will it still be in wide use a few years from now?

What about DDR DRAM? Is it being replaced by RDRAM?

If I buy 512MB of SDRAM, is that the same as 256MB DDR DRAM?

Is RDRAM worth two or three times the money? Is the price going down soon?

Does the best type of RAM depend on the type of CPU/other factors or does faster always means better?

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I think most of the newer motherboards today use DDR ram ,I don't think rdram will be replacing ddr ram any time soon .

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