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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
To be honest DDR3 doesnt really justify itself from a price to performance ratio, at least not yet. Id stick with good DDR2 if upgrading right now, the money left over is better spent on something else, like a more poferful graphics card if you want more ye candy, more storage space if you like archiving stuff etc. Allso be sure NOT to save money on the PSU, geting a good PSU is important to the logevity of your computer, the unclean current from bad psu's can damage every other component.
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Quite frankly, Standard DDR is the best from my perspective. It has the lowest latency times. High bandwidth of DDR2 and DDR3 may be fine for a video card that transfers large 512+ MB textures around, but for your system, you deal with smaller files all day long so latency actually is more important than throughput. Why DDR2 and DDR3 is the standards we are going to I will never know since I have yet to see an instance that max's out standard DDR let alone dual channel standard DDR.
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PS. If you have a choice - get DDR2, not DDR3. Let me know if you want a technical lesson on the differences between all three. You will see why you want lower latency over anything else. |
Well actualy DDR memory is pretty much near its theoretical limits with AMD K8 architecture systems. The theoretical limit of DDR400 is 3.2gb a second and 6.4gb a sec in dual channel mode. I have DDR500 ram sticks which reach 7.5gb of their 8gb theoretical maximum bandwith use. Besides nowadays there are low latency DDR2 modules available for reasunable prices making the advantages of DDR near non existant in that area and giving you more bandwith. Right now for gaming, that is the best way to go. As time passes DDR3 latencies will come down because production technologies and procedures mature and with that prices allso come down.