What difference if any Between these 2 Boards

chippy08 · 13 Jul 2016 at 18:53

Will there be a performance difference

Im interested in buying one of these 2 boards and the only difference i can see is the memory one uses DDR4 and the other uses DDR3 apart from that they look exactly equal so what difference would i see between using the DDR3 board instead of the DD4 board ?
Only reason for choosing the DDR3 board is i have spare memory so no need to buy new stuff.
Thanks

H110I Plus D3 Intel H110

H110I Plus Intel H110

Will be using the i3 6100 cpu

stulid · 13 Jul 2016 at 18:57

D3 is DDR3 the others DDR4 and i believe that is all.

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JanxSpirit · 13 Jul 2016 at 19:21

Skylake isn't DDR3 compatible. DDR3L, yes. DDR3, no.

AllBodies · 13 Jul 2016 at 19:48

stulid said:
D3 is DDR3 the others DDR4 and i believe that is all.

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Indeed, one uses DDR4 and one is DDR3 (the 'D3' one).

OP get the DDR4 version. DDR4 is faster.

chippy08 · 13 Jul 2016 at 20:19

What im wondering is will there be any differanece in performance between the 2 boards if none i will stick with the D3 so i dont have to purchase any more memory

stulid · 13 Jul 2016 at 21:40

Any difference will be small and not noticeable, besides the DDR4 version is limited to 2133MHz so its not like you can take advantage of higher speed DDR4.

chippy08 · 13 Jul 2016 at 23:15

stulid said:
Any difference will be small and not noticeable, besides the DDR4 version is limited to 2133MHz so its not like you can take advantage of higher speed DDR4.

Thanks stulid i will just order the D3 version

AllBodies · 14 Jul 2016 at 02:03

chippy08 said:
Thanks stulid i will just order the D3 version

Yes in this case the better choice. I had assumed you were buying all from scratch.

DDR4 only really makes a difference past at 3000 MHz and beyond also.

jackass3_16 · 14 Jul 2016 at 15:10

JanxSpirit said:
Skylake isn't DDR3 compatible. DDR3L, yes. DDR3, no.

The Skylake motherboard in our latest office PC begs to differ. Its an Asus Z170-P D3 and is running fine with some Corsair XMS3 in it at 1.65v.

mistersprinkles · 16 Jul 2016 at 06:02

jackass3_16 said:
The Skylake motherboard in our latest office PC begs to differ. Its an Asus Z170-P D3 and is running fine with some Corsair XMS3 in it at 1.65v.

It'll run fine until you burn out the IMC on the CPU. Just fine.

Often when things with PC hardware are ill advised, it doesn't mean that you will immediately hear a bang and smell smoke. Often it means that deterioration will rapidly occur until one day you wake up and find that your computer is dead.

I urge you to ditch that high voltage ram and get DDR3L which if I'm not mistaken is 1.35V or less. 0.30V is huge jump for an IMC. We're not talking about putting 1.65V RAM on a 1.5V IMC, it's a 1.35V IMC. .15V you can get away with. .30 volts? Not a good idea.

Don't say you weren't warned