4gb DDR

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I have quite an old system that still uses DDR ram. What I'm wondering is if it actually ever became available in 2 x 2 gig format, as oppose to having to buy 4 x 1 gig sticks?

Looking to get more in preperation for Windows 7 as looking at the specification the 64 bit version needs a minimum of 2 gig to run and I currently only have 1 gig.
 
I have seen 2 x 2gig sets before, but nowadays there going for £100+ what cpu do you have.?, it might be more beneficial if you could get a new motherboard and cpu set.? :)
 
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I have seen 2 x 2gig sets before, but nowadays there going for £100+ what cpu do you have.?, it might be more beneficial if you could get a new motherboard and cpu set.? :)

Well I was going to look to get some second hand, as you say trying to get some new would no doubt be silly expensive.

Got a 3500, so fairly old but didn't really want to go down the route of getting all new bits.
 
Well I was going to look to get some second hand, as you say trying to get some new would no doubt be silly expensive.

Got a 3500, so fairly old but didn't really want to go down the route of getting all new bits.

Yeah i suppose, you could have a look the the bay for some DDR and just install 4 x 1 sticks, can pick up a 2x1gig set on there for about £30/40.

or just get a new motherboard and a 4gig set of DDR2 for about £80-100 :)
 
Well a while back I got suspended for quoting someones sentence which contained one very minor rude remark of which i hadn't noticed, so you'd be suprised. :p

OP - yeah they are still around but will cost you plenty to purchase though, supply (Lack of) and demand etc :)
 
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or just get a new motherboard and a 4gig set of DDR2 for about £80-100 :)

Sorry, I'm so out of touch with computer hardware these days so perhaps you can help a lazy person, can I get a new motherboard that takes DDR2/3 and will take a socket 939 CPU so I wouldn't have to replace that too?

Also, what is the diffrence between DDR/2/3, just the way they are manufactured that allow them to get quicker speeds?

RAM is so cheap these days for the new types.
 
To run DDR3 or DDR2 you will need a new cpu, Gigabyte and Asus did range of boards for Intel Core 2 Duo range which could run on DDR2 or DDR3 on the same board (but not together) at the moment the AMD AM3 range can work on either DDR2 or DDR3 board's as they have dual memory controllers on board, but motherboards use one or the other.

I think the difference is how the data is read / write on each cycle.
 
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