DDR3 Mobo + Memory suggestion/guidance needed.

JamieT

JamieT

JamieT

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Afternoon everyone
I'm looking into DDR3 Mobo's and the Memory to go with it. I'm a heavy gamer and feel these parts of my system are tending to slow my overall performance down. My question is: Is the leap to DDR3 worth the expense and all in all would i need to change my CPU along side it, i mean do these DDR3's support anything other than I7's or would i be better off simply upgrading my motherboard and memory and possibly crossfiring 2 4870 512's at x16? (or possibly even a new card?)

My Motherboard and Memory at the moment were generally just quick replacements for old blown components untill i could save for something abit more extreme.

Current set-up is in my Sig.

I've got about £400-£450 to spend on some upgrades so any suggestions towards what i should do really would be appreciated ofcourse if i could spend less that's always welcome but thats about my limit.

If the leaps worth it could anyone possible put together a mobo ram and if a changed cpu is required an I7 (this i understand will more than likely go over my budget)

Thanks.
 
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Yeah? Well i'm still pretty much in need of a new mobo. My cheap one itself won't even allow Xfire, Any suggestions on a mobo that would be ideal for Xfire ?
 
How are these for overclocking aswell? I will be overclocking and would like to get a relativly nice clock out of my Q6600
 
theyre pretty gooc, by all accounts the P45s are slightly better but theres not much in it, these support full xfire where as the P45 runs at 8x instead of 16X though tbh with the cards youre using it prob wouldnt exceed the bandwidth anyway, if you wanted a P45 look at the asus P5Q Pro or even the deluxe version which has better clocking still due to 16phase power design vs the pro's 8phase
 
I had an Asus P5Q Pro before hand which blew, I Xfired on that before with the exact same card as mine and there was no performance gain at all, I was still seeing slightly low frames on max graphical detailed games. I assumed that was down to the x8 instead of x16? I tried everything to solve the issue but no matter what i did there no was no gain with 2 4870's on the Asus P5Q Pro mobo.
 
I tried quite a few games, Crysis obviously was my first choice, Wow at the time i was playing it, Farcry 2, Benchmarks even showed no sign of increased performence.
 
Just go for the gigabyte recomended before then, that way you'll have the peace of mind knowing it wont be that holding you back, the difference in clocks is negligible at best
 
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