Its official. DDR3 is available now for everyone (that can afford it). Although at this time it is only available on boards with Intel’s P35 chip set, 775 socket. Just wait a bit though and it will be available for the AMD AM2+ and AM2 motherboards. Speeds right now are as listed.

1:DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500)
2:DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)
3:DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
4:DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
5:DDR3 1625 (PC3 13000)
6:DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400)
7:DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000)

Prices also range from $199.00 for a 1 gig stick to $859.00 for 4 gigs (2×2gig). Although DDR3 has been carried on video cards for some time now its taking mainboard companies a while to start producing DDR3 main boards. With DDR2 speeds reaching 10400 you almost have to wonder what is the point of DDR3. I find that my DDR 3200 works just fine even by today’s standards, and i know of no one that does more with a computer than I do. And lets not forget how DDR2 started. DDr2 started its life much as DDR3 is, It came out on nothing but Intel supported boards. However AMDs socket 939 which still used DDR was still far faster in every performance aspect.

“Since AMD release of the “64″ bit cpu Intel has been a tad behind ever since.

Intel’s poor processor performance even combined with the DDR2 speed was still no match for the AMDs of the day. This killed the market for the new DDR2 as well as Intel. It wasn’t until AMD picked up the DDR2 and proved what it could really do that the market for DDR2 started to rise. Intel did soon follow in the performance grind with the release of the 775 socket which brought us the duel and quad core Intel’s of today. With AMD just releasing the new Phenom 9000 series processors and Intel having to launch a new chip set to support the new DDR3 will this be another mistake by Intel? lets face it, since AMD release of the “64″ bit CPU Intel has been a tad behind ever since. Though Intel has 64 bit CPU’s they still haven’t made up for the popularity gain that AMD got. Even there beast of a CPU the Core 2 Quad is still missing something. It just doesn’t have that…AMDness to it that makes AMD far more better. Even now with the Intels performance marks just slightly higher than AMDs, the AMDs are still on top of sales. The only thing about AMD that has changed over the year is the price. Around the socket A days they were known to be the “cheap” alternative to Intel. Now there running about the same price which is anywhere from $60 to around $1200. I guess the point of all this is to say that if i was you i wouldn’t buy the DDR3 just yet. if you wait till AMD starts there support of the memory you’ll be a lot better off.

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