DDR3 Isn't Worth The Money - Yet

An anonymous reader writes "With Intel's motherboard chipsets supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, the question now is whether DDR3 is worth all that extra cash. Trustedreviews has a lengthy article on the topic, and it looks like (for the moment) the answer is no: 'Not to be too gloomy about this, but the bottom line is that it can only be advised to steer clear of DDR3 at present, as in terms of performance, which is what it's all about, it's a waste of money. Even fast DDR2 is, as we have demonstrated clearly, only worthwhile if you are actually overclocking, as it enables you to raise the front-side bus, without your memory causing a bottleneck. DDR3 will of course come into its own as speeds increase still further, enabling even higher front-side bus speeds to be achieved. For now though, DDR2 does its job, just fine.'"

Comments

Re:I agree

[Applekid]

While the DDR joke is fighting hard for its place amongst Soviet Russia and Welcoming Overlords...

You'd be hard pressed to find one player of that genre game to confess they actually consider it dancing any more than whack-a-mole is a simulator of pest-control.

Its my money, dammit, now butt out

[stewbacca]

I hate these freaking articles that tell ME, a hard-working, well-paid computer consumer that something is "too expensive". That is a relative term, and relative to most everyone else's income, maybe it ISN'T too expensive for me. A product is worth what somebody will pay for it, everyone else who isn't buying it can STFU and butt out. Just because YOU can't afford it, doesn't mean it is "too expensive" (whatever that means).