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Subject: New motherboard

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Name: doomhammerr
Date: July 23, 2007 at 19:39:18 Pacific
Subject: New motherboard
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: ?
Model/Manufacturer: ?

Comment:

So im looking around for motherboards to support an intel core 2 extreme 2.93 ghz. and i wanted a p35 chipset support, and i stumbled upon this mother board

"Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi-AP Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / CrossFire Ready / PCI Express / WiFi / Dual Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID"
everything looked good until i saw that it ran DDR3 ram, which is too expensive for my budget, can u run DD2 or do i have to downgrade?

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Response Number 1

Name: jam
Date: July 23, 2007 at 20:51:23 Pacific
Subject: New motherboard

Reply: (edit)

Wait a second...you're willing to pay $250+ for a board, $985 for a CPU, but $400 for 2GB DDR3 RAM is too much? lol
No, you can NOT run DDR2 RAM in a DDR3 board!
But there are boards based on the P35 chipset that use DDR2 RAM & they only cost about 1/2 as much as the board you chose.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...

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Response Number 2

Name: Dark Sky
Date: July 23, 2007 at 21:01:50 Pacific
Subject: New motherboard

Reply: (edit)

Soory to say No! Just like DDR to DDR2, DDR2 have the same pin count as DDR3 but they did not share the same key. But when i google your motherboard model it says that it supports DDR2 1066 not DDR3. Can you read the manual again and check whether your motherboard do support both DDR2 and DDR3 or just DDR3.
Dip Electronic Eng
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Core2 Duo 6420
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2xSeagate 160GB SATA300
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