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connnnn · 15-09-2007, 05:26 AM

Well DDR2-800 and above will all be perfectly adequate for the next few years in my opinion. You might squeeze a few percentage points more from getting incrementally better RAM, but it all comes down to whether you get more additional performance spending that money on a better CPU/GPU instead. Right now DDR2-1066 has a pretty huge price premium as it is (equivalent models are sometimes more than double the price for pretty small performance gains; you could spend that extra $100 on a much better processor and see better improvements), and DDR3 is even higher, and both give decent but not mindblowing performance steps. So ultimately it just comes down to price at the time of upgrading. And I believe there's an assortment of mobos being made that support DDR2 and 3. So basically you really can't go wrong with spending whatever spare change you happen to have on RAM right now.

15-09-2007, 05:26 AM	#6 (permalink)
connnnn Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: TX, USA Posts: 425	Re: DDR3 Ram Well DDR2-800 and above will all be perfectly adequate for the next few years in my opinion. You might squeeze a few percentage points more from getting incrementally better RAM, but it all comes down to whether you get more additional performance spending that money on a better CPU/GPU instead. Right now DDR2-1066 has a pretty huge price premium as it is (equivalent models are sometimes more than double the price for pretty small performance gains; you could spend that extra $100 on a much better processor and see better improvements), and DDR3 is even higher, and both give decent but not mindblowing performance steps. So ultimately it just comes down to price at the time of upgrading. And I believe there's an assortment of mobos being made that support DDR2 and 3. So basically you really can't go wrong with spending whatever spare change you happen to have on RAM right now.