DDR2 v. DDR3

[aok]

Will DDR2 be taken over by DDR3 completely that DDR2 will be obsolete?

 

[DavidT]

If it does, it won't be for a while. Put it this way, DDR2 came out in 2003 yet DDR RAM is still being sold.

 

[sammytomjohn]

people are still runnin their games on ddr 800's fine!! let alone ddr2 1066mhz!!

so i would think it would be a while yet before people are forced to upgrade to ddr 3

 

[OmegaStalker]

You lot say that but it doesn't mean much... The bicycle hasn't been taken over the car yet doesn't mean its as good as one though... Really DDR3 is better if you buy it now and keep it for a few donkey years...

 

[stevej696]

I still preferre running ddr2 to ddr3 due to the cost but ddr2 still performes.

 

[Hatman]

DDR3 has come down a lot lately especially as some very cheap basic DDR3 modules have been released. Doesn really show much performance boost comapred to DDr2 tho :/ so even if its DDR3 cant see much point paying for more than 1333mhz.

 

[Rastalovich]

Should be using ddr4 atleast by now.

It'll take a few more years of extracting cash from people b4 we get that.

 

[DeMoB]

On LGA775 rigs, DDR3 shows very little day to day performance improvement over DDR2 (I have a DDR3 rig so know first hand ), so until people are forced to upgrade to DDR3 because their motherboards dont support it, I think it'll be around for a good while longer yet.

Dan

 

[imagination]

On LGA775 rigs, DDR3 shows very little day to day performance improvement over DDR2 (I have a DDR3 rig so know first hand ), so until people are forced to upgrade to DDR3 because their motherboards dont support it, I think it'll be around for a good while longer yet.

Dan

Well said.True!

 

[tonpal]

On LGA775 rigs, DDR3 shows very little day to day performance improvement over DDR2 (I have a DDR3 rig so know first hand ), so until people are forced to upgrade to DDR3 because their motherboards dont support it, I think it'll be around for a good while longer yet.

Dan

I fully agree with the point about 775 performance, however by the end of the year Intel will be selling Core i7 and Core i5 and AMD will have an expanded AM3 range so we may be very close to DDR3 being the dominant type of memory in the marketplace.

 

[FATRAY]

Yep I just stopped using my DDR a few days ago, made the switch to DDR3. So far I'm happy witht the DDR3

 

[oevreys]

It is like Vista, will it take over windows XP?

 

[monkey7]

There's a difference right there. DDR2 and 3 both work fine, although ddr3 with higher performance at a higher price.

Vista wasn't even really usable on the lower end systems and I still don't really like it tbh. The only real plus I see are the graphics and some mods could do (nearly) the same on XP too. Oh and x64 of course, which is the one and only reason I'm not on XP but Vista.

 

[Rastalovich]

There "should" be a nice performance difference between Intel 4 series mobos on DDR2 and the 4 series DDR3. From my recollection DDR2 775 4 series mobos require holding back the memory access. Whereas ofc with DDR3 there's no holding back.

U probably see it better on memory bandwidth and benchmarkers - actual real life performance I doubt there's much in it.

In extreme cases I bet there's a good improvement.

 

[Lynx]

i dont think ddr2 will die away, more likely they will stop selling boards with ddr support and ddr2 will become the new ddr, and ddr3 then new ddr2, and when ddr4 comes up with will just get confusing

 

[xX_o2_Xx]

i don't think the change would happen that quick since if you look on some websites that test the specifications of a computer, some collect information and post it

and as it turns out the intel pentium 4 is the MOST popular processor being used today, which was created with ddr ram and borderlined with ddr2, you can still buy pentium 4 single core processors today.

so not everyone even uses multi-core processors theese days

 

[Dokko]

I've got 4x1GB DDR2 and was thinking of 2x2gb DDR3 to help my overclock on my (hopefully) new Q9550.

I know my mobo the P35c Ds3r was always a bit funny with 4x1 but has done well to get my E6600 to 3.2 on stock volts and keep it there.

Would i benefit from DDR3?

I'm going to have to (more likely than not) get new memory for the new CPU, so i might as well get the highest speed mem i can for the mobo?

 

[diogojrv91]

I think the future is in high MHz and not in lower timmings, because there are no limits for MHz, but there are limits for lower timmings...

So ddr3 is better than ddr2

 

[vintank]

my thoughts

was curious about this myself,

personally I thought it would only really make a difference

with overclocking, as memory can be a limiter

as well as possible bottlenecks with higher end applications if your cpu

is way ahead of your ram

but for the average person probably not too much difference for the average user

 

[devil mcry]

hello, normaly ddr3 kits have hight latency, good kits (with low latency) are more expensive...

ddr2 (for example my ocz blade 9600 5 5 5 ) is more competitive vs cheap ddr3...

however the ddr2 standard is going to finish with i7/i5 and am3