8MB of DDR2 for the next 3 years or wait 6 months and then move to DDR3?

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 22:44

Should I pick up 8MB of DDR2 as it's cheap and I can both put it in my current AM2 rig and then still continue to it use when I upgrade to an AM2+ board in 6 months time with an AM3 cpu or should I just wait until I upgrade the board and cpu and go to DDR3 with a proper AM3 board?

I guess another way of asking this is how much better is 8MB of DDR3 than 8MB of DDR2?

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 22:46

Just realised, obvious questions I'll need to answer are:

No I don't plan to use VM, I only game / browse / download & watch movies on this rig. I only have 2G at the moment and to be fair, I don't seem to be suffering. I'm on XP 32bit and intend to move to win 7 64 bit when it launches if the drivers I need are well supported.

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 22:46

MikeHunt79 said:
I'd stick with DDR2

Why?

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 23:07

If I go DDR3 then it means doing the cpu, mobo, OS & RAM all in one go, which would mean I pay over the odds for what I need but it does mean I get DDR3 memory for the next 3 years. If I stick with DDR2 it means I get more memory now (which i've already admitted I don't really need [much]), but I'm stuck with DDR2 for 3 years; then I get a new motherboard and a 64 bit win 7 in 4 months, then I get a new AM3 CPU in another 3 or 4 months. and I reckon I'll have a better machine for less / same cash than if I do everything in one go - but I'm stuck with DDR3.

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 23:08

Mr-White said:
your best bet is to upgrade the 8mb to 8gb

MW

Good advice will probably be a thousand times better!

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 23:08

MikeHunt79 said:
If offers more than enough bandwidth and saves him having to change boards.

will it be more than enough band width in 2011?

CowboyTony · 14 Jun 2009 at 23:16

silversurfer said:
8mb is pretty cheap nowadays. Go for it but get it on 2 sticks or less because before you know it your'll need 16mb.

Also what mike said, in 2011 things will be different again and you can skip to ddr4

Cheers the DDR4 point has made up my mind. I'll go for the DDR2 sticks. Hopefully 8GB should see me through until I need DDR4 / 16 MB...

CowboyTony · 15 Jun 2009 at 00:36

Sparx said:
Am I the only one reading that they are putting MB and not GB? Haha.

EDIT - Nevermind, noticed someone else already commented on this, but still! Haha.

Funny thing is I also kept typing CCR2 / CCR3 for some bizarre reason but spotted corrected that before hitting submit...