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kalato

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Location: Finland and UK

Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 11:22 Post subject: Hardware Help	Quick Quote Quote

Hi All! Hope everyone is dandy! I just need some help or advice really.. I'm planning to upgrade my board and memory, I want to get a DDR3 board and about 4gb of DDR3 memory but using my 775 E8400 chip in that board. I've been reading around and alot of people are saying there is no point on upgrading and using that chip as it wasnt really made for DDR3 memory so the speed wont really make a difference?

Paintface

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Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 11:26 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

i wouldnt buy a new board and ram just for the sake of having DDR3 only reason to go for DDR3 + new mobo is if you are getting a new CPU that supports a different socket

kalato

Posts: 1492
Location: Finland and UK

Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 11:35 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah true but I also want to goto SataII. I like bum.

Paintface

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Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 12:08 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

get a new CPU along with it , both AMD 965 and Core i5 are dirtcheap these days for high end cpus

kalato

Posts: 1492
Location: Finland and UK

Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 16:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) seem to be okay? I like bum.

SpykeZ

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Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 16:15 Post subject:

kalato wrote:

Yeah true but I also want to goto SataII.

sataII = sata 3Gb/s

my 939 socket motherboard has sataII Neutral

how do you not have it

Paintface

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Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2009 16:39 Post subject:

kalato wrote:

Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) seem to be okay?

if you dont mind paying more for the same gaming performance compared to AMD

Slizza

Posts: 2378
Location: Bulgaria

Posted: Wed, 18th Nov 2009 06:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

it is most definatly not worth the expense unless you are moving to a new cpu platform. I5 would be a good upgrade for you. On that note though you might want to wait a while, the prices on ram are sky rocketing justnow. There is better performance to be had on the i5 chip than the AMD chips. Unless all you do is game on the pc when you will only see the advantage in cpu intensive situations... Corsair 750D ::Asus Prime B850 :: R7 9800X3D :: 32gb DDR5 :: RTX 5070 Ti :: 2Tb SSD :: Antec 280MM AIO::

kalato

Posts: 1492
Location: Finland and UK

Posted: Wed, 18th Nov 2009 18:15 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Sorry I do have SataII on this board I didnt realise. Slizza yeah true. SHall I just upgrade my memory and get a satII hdd then? My memory at the moment is DDR2 3gb 800mhz. Could get some DDR2 9200 1150mhz stuff or the PC2-8500C5 1066MHz? any differnce in speed? Only a little? I like bum.

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