Difference between DDR2 800 and DDR3 1600?
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From: John Doe on 20 Feb 2010 00:45 How much difference is there between DDR2 800 and DDR3 1600? Any personal experience with both? Thanks.
From: Ron AF Greve on 20 Feb 2010 08:48 I don't know about the difference between those two but a year ago I built a new pc with two DDR3 2GB paired kingston modules. Didn't get a stable configuration. Bought another MoBo still unstable no matter what I did. Ditched on of the two modules than the second MoBo became more stable. I still regretted the lack of the additional memory (and it wasn't comppletely stable either). So I bought two OCZ DDR2 modules, overclocked just a little bit and the system is running quite stable in ducal channel mode with 3.2GB or 4GB (depending on OS). It is certainly not slower. Back then the DDR3 was just a waste of money (also oddly enough it has disappeared from the MB's QVL completely). And yes, this is a MoBo that can handle both DDR3 and DDR2 (the first one a gigabyte could only handle DDR3). Don't know if things have improved. For my current configuration even though I bought about the fastest HD (within my price range) and used striping (which might or might not improve performance). I think the bottleneck nowadays is more the communcication with the disks (I.e. load time of games or when a lot of files get accessed like when compiling a large program). "John Doe" <jdoe(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message news:4b7f76ec$0$32087$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... | How much difference is there between DDR2 800 and DDR3 1600? Any | personal experience with both? | | Thanks. -- Regards, Ron AF Greve http://informationsuperhighway.eu
From: MCheu on 6 Mar 2010 14:21
On 20/02/2010 12:45 AM, John Doe wrote: > How much difference is there between DDR2 800 and DDR3 1600? Any > personal experience with both? > > Thanks. DDR3 and DDR2 are two different memory types and are incompatible with each other. Even if you have a CPU that has memory controllers for both types like AMD's phenom II series, your motherboard has to have the right slot type to accept them. |