PC 3200DDR1 Worth Ditching for the new memories?

[Leenix]

I'm currently Running on a Rather Old system.

Amd 3000+ A64
2 x 512Mb Sticks 400Mhz 3200
Radeon X700
Asrock Dual Sata Motherboard.


The thing is my motherboard only Supports DDR1 Memories, and ever since i could remember a year ago or more, DDR2 Memories were Worse than DDR1 Due to their Timings.
Now DDR3 Is out, and i was wondering if i should Upgrade to the new memories.

I Only play Crap games like Lord of the Rings Online / World of Warcraft / Rarely an FPS Game, like CoD4 which plays fine on my crappy system.
But i mostly play Lord of the Rings online.


I'm About to upgrade my System with another 1Gb of DDR1 400Mhz ram just to play the game, i'm also geting a new VGA later on.

I was wondering how the New memories Compare to my Old PC 3200 Ram.
I remember DDR2 667Mhz Rams were even crapier than mine when they first came out so i didnt Upgrade to DDR2.
Was it Fixed? Are DDR3 better? Any Reviews i can check out? I wanna see how they compare to my memory.

 

[keeleysam]

You'd have to upgrade your motherboard, CPU, and RAM to move away from DDR.

Throw 2 1GB sticks in there and be done with it.

 

[Leenix]

I know what my system needs to play the new games.
What i was asking is, how much is the performance gap between DDR1 - DDR2 - DDR3 ^^

 

[solog]

Seems like an accurate test would have to be done on a board that accepts both DDR and DDR2. I'm guessing you have a Socket 754 board? If you wanted to use new ram you would have to get a new board and cpu unless you want to try and find a new board that can still use your old cpu. Then you would see the improvements of the new cpu and ram.

Is their a particular motherboard you are looking at? Is your videocard AGP?

 

[BlueAcolyte]

There isn't much, to be honest. You would think that DDR2 is double the speed of DDR and DDR3 is 4x the speed, but it is really much less.

 

[ShadowFlareX]

DDR3 is just too expensive to get for the small performance gain over DDR2. I had an AMD X2 4400+ S939 with DDR1, when the DDR3 came out, I upgraded to Intel DDR2 system and enjoyed the cheaper price

 

[Yellowbeard]

Keep in mind that to do this upgrade you will be going to more than just new RAM.At a minimum you'd have to upgrade the MOBO along with the memory. A new MOBO and 2 x 2gb of DDR2 would be a significant improvement. After that, for gaming, I'd suggest you upgrade the GPU then CPU.

You could probably do this upgrade for about $100 for new memory and a new MOBO.