OC3D Review: Asus P5K vs Asus P5K3 Benchmarks (DDR2 vs DDR3)

[JN]

"After reviewing the Asus P5K DDR2 based motherboard just over a month ago, we were left wondering how the DDR3 based P5K3 would compare. Today we're back with both boards in a head to head DDR2 vs DDR3 battle!"

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[Ham]

looks the same as the ddr vs ddr2 when it came out too me...

Nice job jim.

 

[Mr. Smith]

looks the same as the ddr vs ddr2 when it came out too me...

I wasn't into pc's back then so I don't have any experience with ddr.

Is it safe to say that ddr2 now owns ddr in terms of performance?

I'm wondering if it is simply a matter of time before ddr3 really comes on with speeds of 2ghz and 5-5-5-15 timings and puts the nail in ddr2's coffin...

Nice work btw. I for one won't be buying a new mobo/ram until nehlam by the looks of this.

I was toying with getting another 2gb kit of cellshocks in the next month. Not sure what benefit I would get with 32bit XP pro... Hmmm.

 

[JN]

I wasn't into pc's back then so I don't have any experience with ddr.

Is it safe to say that ddr2 now owns ddr in terms of performance?

Yeah pretty much, tho someone at OCZ told me that a Conroe on a DDR board beat the cr@p out of a DDR2 setup. Apparently it really liked the low latencies of DDR.

I'm wondering if it is simply a matter of time before ddr3 really comes on with speeds of 2ghz and 5-5-5-15 timings and puts the nail in ddr2's coffin...

Deffo. Now they're tightening the timings of the DDR3 it'll soon be kicking DDR2's a$$ IMO.

I'm going to see if we can get hold of some of that Kingston 5-5-5-15 DDR3 and put it up against the 7-7-7-20 stuff and maybe some DDR2.

 

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah pretty much, tho someone at OCZ told me that a Conroe on a DDR board beat the cr@p out of a DDR2 setup. Apparently it really liked the low latencies of DDR.

:eh: c2d and ddr beat c2d and ddr2?

I'm going to see if we can get hold of some of that Kingston 5-5-5-15 DDR3 and put it up against the 7-7-7-20 stuff and maybe some DDR2.

Yeah those Kingston sticks look nice. Some company I haven't really heard of released some 1600mhz ddr3 the other day... CL10 though. Look

 

[JN]

:eh: c2d and ddr beat c2d and ddr2?

Apparently so...I wasn't quite sure whether to believe it either. I think it was running with timings of 2-2-2-something

 

[Ham]

They must had some seriously crazy test bed for that. Rather than just the ASRock 4coredual-vsta...