Hi all,
I have 2x1GB of these: PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 in my system.
The time has come to add some more RAM, but as I got that memory a while ago, I'm wondering what I should buy to replace/update.
Now there's DDR3 all over the place, should I just get 4GB of that to replace what I have and remain future-proof? Will DDR3 even work on the same M/B if I take the existing stuff out, or do I just cut my losses and buy more DDR2, knowing I'll have to ditch it when I get a new board?
Also, I'm running an oc'ed setup from OCUK, where I got the board, CPU and RAM all guaranteed to overclock very highly - which it does. Will I break this by changing the RAM? I'm sure I read somewhere this might be so...in which case, I wouldn't be able to upgrade my RAM without doing the whole system. Does this sound right? Is it possible that newer, good-quality RAM will negate this problem?
Thanks for any advice...and sorry for rambling a bit!
I have 2x1GB of these: PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 in my system.
The time has come to add some more RAM, but as I got that memory a while ago, I'm wondering what I should buy to replace/update.
Now there's DDR3 all over the place, should I just get 4GB of that to replace what I have and remain future-proof? Will DDR3 even work on the same M/B if I take the existing stuff out, or do I just cut my losses and buy more DDR2, knowing I'll have to ditch it when I get a new board?
Also, I'm running an oc'ed setup from OCUK, where I got the board, CPU and RAM all guaranteed to overclock very highly - which it does. Will I break this by changing the RAM? I'm sure I read somewhere this might be so...in which case, I wouldn't be able to upgrade my RAM without doing the whole system. Does this sound right? Is it possible that newer, good-quality RAM will negate this problem?
Thanks for any advice...and sorry for rambling a bit!