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Geek Culture / DDR-3 Ram your opinion wanted

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Jeremiah
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 20:40
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I am wanting to know if any of you have experience with ddr-3 ram yet and what is your opinion of it over ddr-2

I have a motherboard that supports it, but I am wavering over the cost
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Samoz83
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 20:43
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don't get it is a waste its too expensive for its price and current performance of ddr2

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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 22:59
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I've been reading a lot about DDR3 lately and right now is not the time to upgrade. Sure DDR3 are much higher clocked but even the best DDR3 have so high latencies that they are barely better then DDR2. It's not worth the high price.

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Keo C
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 00:56
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Quote: "your opinion wanted"

Goats are better.

Uhhhhhhh.... I forgot

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Satchmo
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Yeah I would say dance dance revolution 3 is pretty good, not a whole lot of songs though.

Your about to get pwned.
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Raven
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 09:41
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Quote: "I've been reading a lot about DDR3 lately and right now is not the time to upgrade. Sure DDR3 are much higher clocked but even the best DDR3 have so high latencies that they are barely better then DDR2. It's not worth the high price."


Suggest you do more research on what the new versions of DDR actually add over just clock speed.

I'd also seriously suggest making sure all of your clock speeds match not just the RAM, FSB and CPU clock but also the GPU and GDDR clocks.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 15:05 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 15:08
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Quality Branded heatsink DDR2 2Gb matched pair (two 1Gb sticks) running in dual memory mode should give the best performance and support legacy 32bit apps like Dark Basic Pro the best.

If you go 4gb you'll probably end up with some 64bit compatibility issues.

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Accoun
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 15:12 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 15:12
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Quote: "Yeah I would say dance dance revolution 3 is pretty good, not a whole lot of songs though."

Stepmanie Pwns DDR with its custom songs. ;-P

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