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    DDR3 - Worth the motherboard upgrade?

    Oo. Good point on the DDR3 support. I missed that. Ah well, seemed a bit too easy. Guess I will try another matched pair, and see if the the two sets play nice. Thanks for the thoughts.
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    DDR3 - Worth the motherboard upgrade?

    Thanks so much for the replies. Yep, pretty sure I need it. I was running Premiere, and was at 3.5 mb utilized. There are a couple of possible mboards, and many choices of ram, but I was looking at the following combo. MSI G41M-P34 Intel G41M 775 Motherboard PNY 8GB DDR3 1600MHz...
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    DDR3 - Worth the motherboard upgrade?

    I'm looking to upgrade my ram, and it led me to this motherboard issue. I currently have a Gigabyte P35 board that supports DDR2 memory with 4 gig installed. I'd like to go to 8 gigs (running Win8 64) but have discovered that DDR2/800 8gb sets are very expensive, and actually getting hard to...
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    Home security system - alternative to ADT/Brinks

    Everyone should be aware that no matter what Brinks/ADT, or just about any other big name alarm service told you, the system becomes almost useless without monitoring. They let you think you own it, but it will either be deactivated, or will start beeping in the middle of the night until reset...