I went with DDR3 so I wouldn't have to buy a new MOBO next year. Probably will anyway LOL.
Must say I've not seen much in terms of performance gains from it, except when there is big memory moving going on (like when running a game for a second time, it moves the stuff from cache ram to active ram like lightning). At all other times, the increased latency negates the speed differential over DDR2.
I am extremely happy with the Geil ULL stuff in my Linux box, 4GB of RAM and an OS that knows what to do with it is scary[1]. The corsair stuff in the winbox has been fine too, just not a gobsmacking improvement.
Hopefully, since the machine can bench at 3.7 and almost bench at 3.8, I'll get away with holding 3.5 with a few adjustments.
I think I'll wang a few extra V's on the MCH and the VDIMM pre-emptively and save that in my 3.5GHz settings....but boot the machine at stock first......just so I know it's working.....sound like a plan??
Funny that withing hours of deciding to upgrade, the machine carped itself with what could only be a low memory problem (from the circumstances and the amount of post-crash HD activity/slow desktop redraw)....for the first time LOL
[1]eg.....I was watching the Spa Le Mans Series race off disc and had gotten about 3 hours into it. I had to stop it (think I did so by accident) and before returning to it, went off to work, and watched some other stuff when I came home. So, maybe 36 hours after stopping it, I started off again. I started fast forwarding 10 mins at a time thinking "how the hell will I know just from these glimpses, where I had got to"....needn't have bothered.....as soon as I overshot where I'd been up to, the FFWDing stopped and I heard the sound of a hard disc spinning up from powersave......yup I had just run through 3 hours of video that had been in filecache for 36 hours. Gotta love that little flightless fella dontcha.
