Is there a noticeable difference at all?
I also see that the DDR3 chips have a rather large range of clock speeds. Anyone mind explaining?
I also see that the DDR3 chips have a rather large range of clock speeds. Anyone mind explaining?
Not really any gains tbh. Just more overkill-ahead-of-its-time hardware, like most things.
My MacBook has DDR3 ... I don't notice much difference (I doubt I'd take advatange of its umm- advantages)
sort of like GDDR5.
But video cards actually use the bandwidth.TopHat01 wrote:
sort of like GDDR5.
DDR3 is no-go unless you go i7/i5 or are an extreme overclocker.
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It depends on the rest of your hardware, really.
If you've got money to burn and are building like a Q9650/i7, tri-sli GTX 280/295 dream machine, then go for DDR3, with the lowest timings you can get, and which is speed-matched to the CPU fsb.
Otherwise, go with DDR2.
The cost-performance ratio isn't in DDR3's favour.
If you've got money to burn and are building like a Q9650/i7, tri-sli GTX 280/295 dream machine, then go for DDR3, with the lowest timings you can get, and which is speed-matched to the CPU fsb.
Otherwise, go with DDR2.
The cost-performance ratio isn't in DDR3's favour.
Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2008-12-28 14:40:39)
DDR3 has a 3 on the end were as DDR2 has a 2 /thread