The Conclusion:
"DDR3 has arrived, and it is here to stay - and the first DDR3 motherboard we have examined performs well.
Currently, the battle rages all around... and DDR2 is winning more battles than it is losing... but the writing is on the wall. I believe that for the next six months or so, DDR2 will still dominate, but its reign is over.
Once the memory module manufacturers start working their magic, and compete on high speed lower latency DDR3, it will come into its own, and it will dominate the landscape until it is unseated itself by a future contender.
DDR3-1333 is a decent buy; DDR3-1600+ will start to take the performance crown away from DDR2."
Unnecessary. Hell 4 gigs of DDR2 is unnecessary why DDR3? Too expensive, too impractical and too soon. I'm already $1200-$1300 into my current PC and still spending.
4 gigs is impractical just because nothing will use 4 gigs to it's full efficiency yet. and you need 64bit versions of the OS and then the 64bit programs to take full advantage of it. and we all know how easy it is to get 64bit drivers......
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correct. that's what i had to when i was building my friends pc. he had 4 gigs and the installer for vista and xp would just crap out b/c the addressing for the RAM went beyond what it could actually address. but the 64bit worked fine.
although i would double check you can find 64bit drivers for your hardware first. the hardware companies are getting better about 64bit, but they're still not as easy as 32bit.
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