I notice you can get 2x1GB of DDR3 for less than 100 quid these days, so I was thinking of going for a motherboard that supports both DDR2 and DDR3. Is there any disadvantage for having a combo board rather than a dedicated DDR3 board?
Are DDR2/DDR3 combo motherboards any good?
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As far as i know, only boards like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-279-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1155&name=Asus%20P5Q3%20Deluxe%20@%20Wifi-N%20Intel%20P45%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR3%20Motherboard
and some of the X48 chipset boards are DDR3 only, and the general concensus seems to be that DDR3 isnt much of a gain over DDR2.
I've just bought a MSI Neo2 board with DDR2 and DDR3 support, so i'll find out if theres any downsides - gonna be running 4Gb of DDR2 in it for now, no plans to get any more RAM at the mo.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-279-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1155&name=Asus%20P5Q3%20Deluxe%20@%20Wifi-N%20Intel%20P45%20(Socket%20775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR3%20Motherboard
and some of the X48 chipset boards are DDR3 only, and the general concensus seems to be that DDR3 isnt much of a gain over DDR2.
I've just bought a MSI Neo2 board with DDR2 and DDR3 support, so i'll find out if theres any downsides - gonna be running 4Gb of DDR2 in it for now, no plans to get any more RAM at the mo.
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