DDR III..whats so great about it?

[Mathersalan]

So I was looking through memory on newegg and ran across DDR3 chips..Wow I thought DDR3 would be out around the time AM3 is out. So there are motherboards that support ddr3 now..

Anyone here have DDR3 ram'; Is it much improved than ddr2?


Its like $400 for 2 GB's :drool:

[||Console||]

The p5k3 will run DDR3 ram , I havent done any reading on it but I remember seeing a Thread on XS about it . ( and this was a while ago ) but they were getting better BW with the DDR3 even @ much higher timmings .

To me now is the time time to buy DDR2 the prices are rock bottom , we are getting 2gig kits for less tahn half of what ppl were paying a few months ago .

[Evilsizer]

The p5k3 will run DDR3 ram , I havent done any reading on it but I remember seeing a Thread on XS about it . ( and this was a while ago ) but they were getting better BW with the DDR3 even @ much higher timmings .

To me now is the time time to buy DDR2 the prices are rock bottom , we are getting 2gig kits for less tahn half of what ppl were paying a few months ago .
even getting 2 2gig kits for half the price of 2gig ddr3, hmm i wonder what ddr-6 is gonna be like.

[Mathersalan]

Back in Jan 07 when my rig was built my ram (in sig) cost about $289 and now its $139...Wow if I waited to build my setup a month ago I would have enough to buy an 88800GTX at least


Sad enough I cannot get it to go to 1k freq...(nb needs correct timings?)

[GTengineer]

not much right now

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2989

future proofing for DDR3 right now is IMO ridiculous unless you are on a really long upgrade cycle.

[kiltz]

Back in Jan 07 when my rig was built my ram (in sig) cost about $289 and now its $139...


same here my ram was almost x2 as much couple months ago, now i can get 4gigs for $200