Is It Worth It to Upgrade from DDR2 to DDR3 Motherboard & Ram

**P5200** · #1 23rd Oct 2009, 18:44

I was thinking of upgrading but, wanted to get some opinions. Thanks!

**Carbon** · #2 23rd Oct 2009, 18:52

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Here’s what hasn’t changed: DDR3 still gives you pretty much zero performance differences. Therefore, don’t buy DDR3 because you think you’ll get better performance. RAM is boring that way – you can get more of it to speed up caching in Windows Vista and 7 and increase multitasking ability, you can tighten its timings (the latency of the sticks, or in simpler terms how long it takes to read data out of memory) to very slightly increase performance in some applications, but overall memory bandwidth (the MHz number) doesn’t matter at all.

So no, unless you mean you're upgrading the CPU as well, in which case you don't have much of a choice :)

**P5200** · #3 23rd Oct 2009, 19:28

Hi Carbon, thanks for the explanations.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103649

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-324-_-Product I just upgraded to this phenom 2 from plain phenom 2.3ghz with locked multiplier. I was thinking of upgrading to this motherboard what are your thoughts?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131361 I'm also running 4 gigs of Gskill at 1066mhz I plan to use on the new board. I'm open to suggestions on the motherboard upgrade though. Thanks!

**Carbon** · #4 23rd Oct 2009, 20:02

There's no reason to upgrade a motherboard if the one you have has the features you need.