bottle neck ?

[x88x]

I'm saying if he keeps the setup then drops in a Quad Core his new bottleneck would be the RAM in my opinion.

Agreed. But s775 doesn't do DDR3, so to upgrade the RAM speed, he would have to upgrade not only the MBB but also the CPU, and he already said he didn't want to do that.

[Kayin]

s775 does do DDR3, it's just finding a DDR3 motherboard. At which point there's no point in not just going AM3 or SB.

[x88x]

s775 does do DDR3

Right, sorry, I mixed myself around there..the i-series was when they integrated the memory controller, not the Core 2 series.

[onaid]

thanks guys will have to sit down and think about this one. looking at some evga classifieds at the moment

[nevermind1534]

s775 does do DDR3, it's just finding a DDR3 motherboard. At which point there's no point in not just going AM3 or SB.

I do recall seeing some benchmarks, though, that showed little to no difference between DDR2 and DDR3 with socket 775.

[mDust]

I do recall seeing some benchmarks, though, that showed little to no difference between DDR2 and DDR3 with socket 775.

It was probably an old review. When ddr2 came out ddr was still superior for quite some time. The same thing happened with ddr3 vs ddr2. The newest ddr3 is now higher performance. It just took a while to get lower timings on the higher frequency memory. ddr4 should be out shortly, but don't flock to it right away! History repeats itself.

[AmEv]

And here I am, stuck with DDR1 mem.

[mDust]

And here I am, stuck with DDR1 mem.

Does it not do everything you want?

[AmEv]

Not quite as much as I want.

Is there a 478 board with DDRIII???????

[x88x]

Is there a 478 board with DDRIII???????

I highly doubt it...besides, even if there were, your FSB would be severely limiting it.