Nehalem allows overclocking!

[Luke]

^Those are obviously(and thats a pretty good price for the ocz gold's) better but if i was going to get ddr3 memory i would get 1600.

 

[gurusan]

Well if these reapers are anything like the DDR2 reapers then they should OC quite a bit

 

[Wildside]

u guys havent looked at the specs of DDR3 carefully. Benchmarks ive seen, anything lower then the 1600 standard for DDR3 has proven to be slower then DDR2 in most cases. Here is a link all about DDR3:

http://www.techist.com/forums/f78/ddr3-memory-technology-explained-benchmarkreviews-174869/

 

[Luke]

^that is one of the reasons why i would get 1600 because i have seen several things such as that.

 

[zedman3d]

While where on the subject of DDR3, is this a good product:

CORSAIR TWIN3X 2048MB 240-PIN DDR3 1066MHZ PC-8500 TWIN PACK
PC-1066 - operates at 7-7-7-21 latencies

 

[MrCoffee]

So is Nehalem DDR3 only?

I think i'd not want to go for anything slower than OCZ 2GB DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Platinum Enhanced Bandwidth (2x1GB) Dual Channel DDR3 (OCZ3P1600EB2GK))

- 1600MHz DDR3
- CL 7-6-6-20 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)

 

[Peter.Cort]

i think once ddr3 becomes mainstream, like with nehalem and possibly am3 it will start to drop in price, and the ddr3 1066 stuff will begin to out perform ddr2 ram.

 

[Luke]

oh it will definitely drop in price when it's becoming standard, that's for sure.

 

[Drizzt]

Prices aren't too bad now, and I'll be fine with what i have now.

 

[veg1992]

oh it will definitely drop in price when it's becoming standard, that's for sure.

Its already dropping dude, you can get a decent 2gb DDR3 kit for $100 ish...