DDR2 Speeds and gaming

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Goodness me DD2 ram has got so cheap!

It seems whereas 2x1GB of the budget DDR400 RAM I own would have cost about £60 not so long ago, NOW you can get 2X1gb Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 - which runs at 800mhz (and apparently easily overclocks to 1,030mhz) - for about the same price.
Some Crucial Ballistix stuff is only £80 and apparently runs at 1.13ghz!

So.. even though the Athlon 64 I'm running is old-hat.. maybe having it push through some 1.13ghz RAM instead of 400mhz would actually give a cheaper and greater power boost than upgrading to an AM2 chip, eh?

This months CustomPC has a roundup of some of the better chips and the different between the module that clocked at 900mhz and the one that clocked at 1.22ghz was only 1 extra frame per second in FEAR.

So the different between 900mhz and 1.22 is only 1 frame, but maybe the difference between 400mhz and 1.22 would be about 4-5 frames, no? It's probably something that will affect loading times more, but a 4-5 frame improvement for £60 couldn't be bad..

Anybody know a good gaming benchmark that includes the whole spectrum of 400mhz to 1.ghz+ RAM?
 
dont think you can run DDR2 on your mobo. If you try putting DDR2 in it, then i belive you wont be able to boot
 
Really?!
RAM is one area I know absolutely nothing about..

Damn it. Guess I'll have to upgrade afterall..
 
Supports AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64
A8N-SLI supports AMD 939-pin Athlon 64 FX/ Athlon 64 processors with 1MB/512KB L2 cache which is based on 64-bit architecture. It features 2000/1600 MT/s HyperTransport Bus and dual-channel un-buffered DDR400 memory support.

sorry looks like you would have to upgrade your mobo before you can use DDR2 - that why DDR2 is so cheap
 
DDR is 184 pin DDR2 is 240 iirc, so no it wont fit in a 939/DDR mb let alone boot.

AM2 supports DDR2 as does LGA775

You need to upgrade if you want DDR2.
 
I see no point with the rig you have, perhaps next year it may be more viable. but you computer wont be any faster :)
 
Fair enough. Cheers guys.
If I had thought about it a year ago I would have known that DDR2 obviously doesn't go on this board! But I haven't thought about hardware since this baby's been up and running.

I guess for casual gamers computer knowledge can arrive in short bursts once every 2-3 years when you're upgrading your rig!
Ask me anything about Athlon64 or GeForce 7... but Intel Dual Core2? DirectX 10? What on EARTH is going on there..!?.. heh..
 
Well there is exactly NO performance difference between DDR and DDR2.

Don't upgrade just for the sake of the RAM.
 
Dont worry Tom, im a little behind the times when i comes to hardware :)
all i know about are 'old' AMD 939 :D
 
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