Ram Choice for E8400

[balibesnier]

Hi guys, first of all thanks and let me say im very ver noob at this. This is my first own built system so im sorry if what im about to ask sounds stupid.

i have everything prety much already picked but im having a dilema on the Motherboard and Ram choice, im between this

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=888&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=44&LanID=9

and this

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?DetailID=924&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=44&LanID=9

pretty much the difference between them is that one supports DD3 and the other doesn't.

im getting a sata drive maybe ill upgrade to cheetah sometime ,and a Ati Radeon hd4890 so the question is IS IT WORTH IT TO GO FOR THE DDR3 OR NOT, maybe the cpu wont take advantage of it and performance the same with the DDR2 running at 800Mhz FSB

thanks and sorry if this seems foolish for someone.

PD: The reason im getting this MOBO is cause MSI,ASUS and GIGAABYTE dont much supply here in Chile and is hard and expensive to get one. Thanks.

 

[hundredislandsboy]

IMO there is no difference unless it's between DDR 3 2000 and DDR 2 667. Anywhere in between the performance gain is very, very little.
Don't waste money on the DDR 3 board if you're only using an e8400.

 

[drunknmunkys]

With that CPU it's not worth it anyway. DDR3 will be better in the future and because its falling in price it's being recommended. It will not give much performance boost now, however, and youre going with a lga775 socket which is being discontinued and won't be upgradable anyway.

Edited for retardedness. The p45 is a fine chipset, my brain went haywire.

 

[shabaa]

Looks like you are facing a dilemma....I guess the real question you should ask yourself first is .... Do you really want to replace your system when every new thing comes out do I want to build this box and live with it for a few years and then replace it with what is current? This is really a financial question that you should be asking yourself. The answer to the simple question that you posed is as HundredIslandBoy states.... get the board with DDR2 as any noticeable gains by the overpriced DDR3 will not be noticed .... unless ..... you use this thing for benchmarking ONLY..... and I mean only. The price of DDR3 and the performance gains realized is not worth the cost difference. That has already been written about here on TOM'S. As to your choice of processors, the E8400 is a good choice and has been overclocked to 5GHz+ stably. Yes... the i7 processors are newer but I have yet to see anyone running it 24/7 @ 4.6 like I run my E8400 OC'ed. I built my system last year and I will keep it until a "stock clocked" processor comes out with a 4.0 GHz speed and at least 50% headroom for overclocking. Don't be discouraged by what some will say on the forum as it is an open forum and there is an opinion everywhere. Good luck on your build! Remember "It is not always what you have ... but rather what you can do with what you have"

 

[balibesnier]

thanks for the posts guys, really apreciated =)

 

[balibesnier]

any recommendations on a different chipset?

 

[shortstuff_mt]

I would stick with the P45 chipset. I'm not sure what drunknmunkys talking about. The P45 chipset is a great chipset that has a reputation of very good stability and overclocking. It's the best possible chipset for a Core 2 CPU.

 

[IzzyCraft]

High quality ram if you're going to oc else i'd just get half decent as ram performance isn't so scaling on the core 2 and core quad platform.