MarkH Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Can anyone give me a rough idea about how significant the choice of DDR3 over DDR2 RAM is for FSX? I am thinking of buying an ASUS Striker II Formula board, but the Striker II Extreme takes DDR3 and I'm wondering if the extra investment will be worth the pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 it rather simple, ddr3 is capable of much higher fsb speeds, hence the system wil be faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradHosking Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Simple, invest in DDR3 if you can and run in triple channel. Most systems are heading this way now and DDR3 will get cheaper over time as more i7's and i5 and AMD's new gear hit the marketplace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 As long as the MoBo supports DDR3 use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkH Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 As long as the MoBo supports DDR3 use it. Ah, the point is I have to buy a different board to use DDR3 and I wondered if it's worth the premium (about 50UKP). The consensus seems to be that there's great performance potential, so I guess the answer is yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterhayes Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Hi Isn't there another choice to make wrt DDR3 RAM? If you have an i7 9XX series you probaly need to choose triple channel DDR3 RAM at 3, 6, 12 GB. If you have a new i5 and i7 8xx series you probably use the dual channel DDR3 RAM at 2, 4, 8GB. It's starting to get confusing PeterH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkH Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 Isn't there another choice to make wrt DDR3 RAM? If you have an i7 9XX series you probaly need to choose triple channel DDR3 RAM at 3, 6, 12 GB. If you have a new i5 and i7 8xx series you probably use the dual channel DDR3 RAM at 2, 4, 8GB. I guess I go with dual channel as it will be an LGA775 board and Core2 Duo CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradHosking Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/255223-30-ddr2-ddr3-core Found the following which seems to answer your question. DDR3 really only benefits the i7 chips it would seem as there is only a 2% benefit someone has written with a Core2 chip and DDR3. However money wise, if you want to update that chip later to a i7 then you already have the RAM for it don't you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkH Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 Found the following which seems to answer your question. DDR3 really only benefits the i7 chips it would seem as there is only a 2% benefit someone has written with a Core2 chip and DDR3. Food for thought, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkH Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 And here's more dissent. Looks like this isn't at all simple for LGA775. I'm assuming these results generalise to contemporary non-Intel chipsets (nVidia790 in particular), so it looks like I should probably go for the cheaper board and stick with the fastest DDR2 I can get. \ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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