DDR3 Motherboards.

[Mitch101]

Anyone know when DDR3 Motherboards are expected to arrive? AMD and INTEL?
I plan on skipping the DDR2 generation if its sooner than later.

I find myself with plenty of DDR1 memory and dont want to buy DDR2 to find in 2 months everyone is moving to DDR3.

 

[Aeros]

In the fall Intel will be releasing it's "Bearlake" chipset which I belive will be DDR3 compliant.

Also, I am holding out for DDR3 as well.

Long live DDR2! The DDR2 is dead.

 

[zephyrprime]

Supposed to be starting in Q2:
http://images.tweaktown.com/imagebank/p35_roadmap01.gif

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Supposed to be starting in Q2:
http://images.tweaktown.com/imagebank/p35_roadmap01.gif

doesn't work for me

 

[Mitch101]

Didnt work for me either. Is that Q2 this year or Q2 of 2008?

 

[Aeros]

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9682/p35roadmap01iw2.gif

 

[tcsenter]

With Intel set to unveil its next-generation Bearlake desktop chipsets (also known as the 3 Series) by the end of this month, market intelligence firm DRAMeXchange is predicting that DDR3 supportable motherboards and DRAM modules will soon follow beginning in the second quarter of 2007.

However, the firm warns that DDR3 512-Mbyte memory chip prices will likely remain too expensive for most consumers and won't become a mainstream standard until 2009.

The DDR3 512-Mbyte chip is still above the $20 level, according to DRAMeXchange, and the DDR3 512-Mbyte module price currently hovers around $180. That is eight times higher than the DDR2 512MB modules, which come in at $23.

Because of these high prices, DDR3 is not expected to become the new standard in 2007, DRAMeXchange said?at least not until the 70-nm manufacturing process becomes more mature, something that isn't expected to occur until 2009. -- Extremetech.com

DDR2 is crazy cheap right now @ $50 - $55 per GB. AMD won't adopt DDR3 until mid-2008.

As with DDR2 vis-a-vis DDR, entry-level DDR3 will be slower than DDR2 (and more expensive) due to higher latencies. Don't expect any real-world performance advantage to DDR3 for at least a year after initial availability (e.g. 2009).