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Well, 4 gigs of RAM is almost a requirement for games, and would outweigh any performance gain from DDR3. That said, the performance benefits from a well tuned DDR3 system would probably be worth it, and you could add more RAM later.
DDR2 and DDR3 are incompatible. If you go with DDR2, then you will be limiting yourself to older, slower processors and RAM. DDR2 is on its way out, and most of the cutting edge tech is put on DDR3 boards.
If your building a system, I would recommend a P55 board, a Core i5 Quad Core processor, and 4GB DDR3, paired with an ATI Radeon 4870, or 5770.
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Well, 4 gigs of RAM is almost a requirement for games, and would outweigh any performance gain from DDR3. That said, the performance benefits from a well tuned DDR3 system would probably be worth it, and you could add more RAM later.
DDR2 and DDR3 are incompatible. If you go with DDR2, then you will be limiting yourself to older, slower processors and RAM. DDR2 is on its way out, and most of the cutting edge tech is put on DDR3 boards.
If your building a system, I would recommend a P55 board, a Core i5 Quad Core processor, and 4GB DDR3, paired with an ATI Radeon 4870, or 5770.
I originally thought to go with 4 gigs of DDR3.
This is what im building. Its me budget happiness
RAM: Well, we lookin into that ATM
HDD: 500gb 7200rpm
Video Card: Geforce gtx 280 1gb (I already have this, thats why im gunna be using it)
Processor: AMD athlong X2 Regor @ 2.8ghz (will upgrade it to a quade core @ 3.4 ghz within a year of me building the PC)
OS: Windows XP 64 bit or 7
Mobo: Newegg.ca - ASRock M3A785GMH/128M AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Board was DOA. I was stoked to be building a computer for myself and not someone else--I do this for a living. I got all my components, put it all together, hit the on switch, and nothing happened. I checked to insure that the board was properly grounded to the case, the I/O plate was on straight, the power connectors from the psu were secure, and the front panel switches were wired properly. they were all fine. I reseated the cpu, tested the ram and the psu. They all seem fine. I noticed two things on this board that are major design flaws. There is no power light on the board to indicate that power is even getting to it, and the 12 volt and cpu power connectors are flimsy. I bought this board because I wanted decent power in an economy build, and it had good linux compatibility ratings, but it's cheap for a reason.
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