Yes? No? Maybe? Why So?
Give me the Ups and Downs.
Give me the Ups and Downs.
Poll
DDR3: Is it Worth it?
| Yes | 7% | 7% - 4 | ||||
| No | 92% | 92% - 47 | ||||
| Total: 51 | ||||||
I'd say no for the moment. It is great performance, but it is too (unjustifiably) expensive. 4-8Gb of DDR2 PC2-6400/PC2-8500+ is more than adequate for just about anything and everything nowadays. Whereas DDR3 will no doubt be 'teh future!', I'm not quite sure that the industry is ready for a mass-rollout of it right now. Too expensive to manufacture, and games/applications just won't utilize it all... yet.
That being said, GDDR3 on graphics cards is a must-have .
If you're thinking ahead, just get a DD3/DDR2 compliant motherboard and then upgrade in time when the prices come down to meet the needs of the consumer.
That being said, GDDR3 on graphics cards is a must-have .
If you're thinking ahead, just get a DD3/DDR2 compliant motherboard and then upgrade in time when the prices come down to meet the needs of the consumer.
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DDR3 will be the better choice. In a year. For now, it's over priced and low-performing.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
not atm
Not now, but it has the potential but needs the mobos (chipsets) to take advantage
Unless you've got a processor that desperatlely screams for an FSB beyond 600MHz... NO.
Truth.jsnipy wrote:
not atm
Nein.
Negatory.
If your question is as in: Will it make a difference, and I am rich, then yes.
If your question is as in: Will it make enough of a difference for me to spend my last dollar on, then no.
If your question is as in: Will it make enough of a difference for me to spend my last dollar on, then no.
No. There are no (normal) CPUs that show any real benefit from that sort of memory bandwidth.
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lol, nerdy
lol, nerdy
