"Unganged mode" for DDR3?

[Motoman]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

I think what Chai means is that the effect of using DDR3 is far less than an upgrade to something else like a Radeon HD 4870.

...that may be true, but my machine already has a 4870, and there's no way I'm shelling out the money for a 4870X2.

...and I'm not sure what all the fuss is about with DDR3 being "more expensive" than DDR2 anyway. The RAM I got came in 4Gb kits (2Gb x 2) at CL7 for $58 with free shipping. A 4Gb kit of DDR2-800 is no lower than $44 as far as I can see. So by buying 2 kits of the DDR3 instead of 2 kits of the DDR2, I spent an extra $28. Who the hell cares about $28 on a build like this?

Assertions that DDR3 is "so much more expensive" thand DDR2 are BS. That extra $3.50 per Gb can't possibly be that important to anyone...and if it is, you probably shouldn't be spending your money on a new PC anyway.

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Motoman

...that may be true, but my machine already has a 4870, and there's no way I'm shelling out the money for a 4870X2.

...and I'm not sure what all the fuss is about with DDR3 being "more expensive" than DDR2 anyway. The RAM I got came in 4Gb kits (2Gb x 2) at CL7 for $58 with free shipping. A 4Gb kit of DDR2-800 is no lower than $44 as far as I can see. So by buying 2 kits of the DDR3 instead of 2 kits of the DDR2, I spent an extra $28. Who the hell cares about $28 on a build like this?

Assertions that DDR3 is "so much more expensive" thand DDR2 are BS. That extra $3.50 per Gb can't possibly be that important to anyone...and if it is, you probably shouldn't be spending your money on a new PC anyway.

It's your money.

[Motoman]

Originally Posted by Chai

It's your money.

The point that needs to be made, with all due respect, is that the extra $ that DDR3 costs over DDR2 is negligible, and wouldn't have paid for an upgrade on any other component in the system. It was asserted several times in this thread that the "extra cost" of DDR3 could have been used for some other better component...$28 doesn't upgrade anything else...and if you were a more normal person and put in "only" 4Gb of RAM, your cost differenct of $14 definitely wouldn't upgrade anything else.

It literally works out to an extra $3.50 per Gb. Less than the cost of lunch at McDonald's. About than the cost of one beer at a respectable bar.

I would just like people to stop pretending there's any appreciable difference in cost between DDR2 and DDR3...because the cost difference is negligible. That's all.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Motoman

...that may be true, but my machine already has a 4870, and there's no way I'm shelling out the money for a 4870X2.

...and I'm not sure what all the fuss is about with DDR3 being "more expensive" than DDR2 anyway. The RAM I got came in 4Gb kits (2Gb x 2) at CL7 for $58 with free shipping. A 4Gb kit of DDR2-800 is no lower than $44 as far as I can see. So by buying 2 kits of the DDR3 instead of 2 kits of the DDR2, I spent an extra $28. Who the hell cares about $28 on a build like this?

Assertions that DDR3 is "so much more expensive" thand DDR2 are BS. That extra $3.50 per Gb can't possibly be that important to anyone...and if it is, you probably shouldn't be spending your money on a new PC anyway.

Ah! If you already have a HD 4870, that's good enough!

Hmm.. That's not much more expensive. I guess it's a lot different over here.

[Earnhardt09]

I've heard both sides of the argument. I personally have used both and got crashes when I used ganged. So, I use unganged.