Is there such a thing?

Daston · 9 Nov 2007 at 08:14

Hi guys

Up grading to an Intel Quad core (thinking of either the QX6850 or the new one thats comming out). However I cant seem to find any motherboards that suport SLI & DDR3. All the DDR3 boards seem to be Intels own chip and that only supports crossfire. Does Nforce plan on supporting DDR3? Anyone know of any new kit comming out?

Jumping · 9 Nov 2007 at 10:14

Nvidia is soon releasing their new chipset, which I would imagine will come with DDR3 support.

At the moment I dont think you can officially run SLI on Intel chipset boards, but in the past you could do it with special hacked drivers.

Also DDR3 is still very expensive and you don't actually get any real gains in speed. So my recommendation would be to get a good DDR2 board and some quality ddr2 ram. Then when you are due your next upgrade prices should hopefully be down and DDR3 will actually perform better than DDR2.

Daston · 9 Nov 2007 at 13:18

I may wait for a bit longer then my rig will run crysis in full so thats enough for now. I am able to get DDR3 at next to cost so that isnt too much of an issue.

stoofa · 10 Nov 2007 at 01:58

Even at "cost" prices you would be looking at prices significantly higher than the current DDR2 prices.
...and if you can get DDR3 at near "cost" then surely you can get DDR2 at a similar price which on today's going rate would be almost giving it away.

I'm considering a move to a DDR3 based system at the moment but only because I've been effectively given the DDR3 memory (once my boss agrees to me having it).
If I was buying right now I would stick to DDR2 as DDR3 although offering a slight performance boost cannot warrant the major difference in price.