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8th September 2008, 03:02 PM
|  | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Mar 2008, 289 posts. Location: Florida Reputation:  | | | DDR3 Memory
Many of you may be surprised to learn that DDR3 has just become very affordable.
I had a poke around newegg, and discovered to my own shock that a 2 gig set of DDR3 1333 mhz 240 pin RAM from Gskill is now only 75 dollars or so.
Here's the link just to prove that I'm not bluffing. Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory
I'm very tempted to buy myself a set.
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8th September 2008, 03:07 PM
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Very nice! DDR2 will probably go down more than. Maybe....
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8th September 2008, 03:38 PM
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I think i'll wait until next year to give it a little more time to mature, and for the latencies to lower 
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8th September 2008, 08:42 PM
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Looking at Toms Hardware reviews theres not a huge difference it speed at the moment between DDR2 and 3.
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8th September 2008, 10:43 PM
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Hence why I intend to give it more time to mature 
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8th September 2008, 11:07 PM
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I realise that you guys are probably already aware of this, but for anyone that isn`t, it`s important to know that your motherboard must support DDR3. A lot of motherboards don`t, so you`ll need to check first.
Regards Howard |
8th September 2008, 11:09 PM
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Yup. A lot of people make the mistake of purchasing incompatible memory.
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8th September 2008, 11:26 PM
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I lost count along time ago of how many threads called 'new pc build wont work' ive helped on where the problem was wrong ram.
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8th September 2008, 11:57 PM
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I have 4gigs DDR2 PC6400, I will be waiting till I can get 4gigs DDR3 at $75. Yes my board supports it. (GA-EP35C-DS3R )  |
9th September 2008, 04:41 AM
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Nope my board doesn't. Don't really need DDR3 yet. I got the highest DDR2 you can get. DDR2 800.
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9th September 2008, 12:51 PM
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You can get 1200+ DDR2 
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6th March 2010, 10:07 AM
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wow!
I just wish my motherboard is ddr3 compatible...
anyway, do you guys but on newegg?
thanks.
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6th March 2010, 03:18 PM
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wow!! resurecting a 3 year old thread jaydeee lol
Well now you do need DDR3 I've been using it about a year on my mac and is soooo fast
Yeah newegg is a good site
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7th March 2010, 03:03 PM
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OMG!
LOL dudeking! did not noticed its very old waaa! sorry hehehee!
I've been looking around here and just hit this ddr3 thing so I thought I was new LOL!
Well may be because until now I have ddr2 so ddr3 is new to me hehehe!!
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7th March 2010, 03:41 PM
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well I hope your computer is faster for it |
8th March 2010, 09:50 AM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 7,960 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Howard  I realise that you guys are probably already aware of this, but for anyone that isn`t, it`s important to know that your motherboard must support DDR3. A lot of motherboards don`t, so you`ll need to check first.
Regards Howard | Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think that DDR3 modules will physically fit onto a board that is not supposed to support them.
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8th March 2010, 12:10 PM
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They are the same size moduals, but the notch is in a slightly different place  |
8th March 2010, 02:46 PM
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Thats what I meant - DDR3 won't fit into DDR2 slots!
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21st December 2010, 10:55 AM
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I know outlook is supposed to be able to output a backup of all messages but
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