Whew! A mouthful... but an article you will want to read!

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/ddr2_vs_ddr3/

Great review! I might be upgrading to C2D in a few weeks, and I've been looking at the DDR2 version of the Asus wifi board. I'm still debating on weather or not to go DDR2, or the more expensive DDR3. It all depends on my budget though..

Is E6400 at the speed of 2.66Ghz or 2.13Ghz?

Asus P5K3 Deluxe Wifi & Corsair 2x1GB DDR3-1333 & processor E6850 & XFX 8800GTS 320MB & Raptor 150GB

FSB-410 at multiplier x9 & DDR3 at 1312MHZ at 8-8-8-20 lattency & CPU core voltage at 1,5v & Processor Core 2 Duo E6850 at 3700MHZ at perfect stability

benchmark at Everest Ultimadte Edition:
memory lattency 57,3NS with DDR3 at 1312MHZ at 8-8-8-20 and core 2 duo E6850 at 3700MHZ

memory read 9028MB/s with DDR3 at 1312MHZ at 8-8-8-20 and core 2 duo E6850 at 3700MHZ

cpu queen 7420MHZ 2xcore 2 duo E6850 at 3700MHZ

It was the best i could get, if somebody knows a way to get better result, please tell me

best regards
Manuel


This message was edited by mreinolds on Sep 18 2007.

Hi
Just so you know,
the P5K deluxe board only supports 2GB of 1066Mhx ram...
Asus is not very keen on telling people that.
The manual was not very instructive either.
So now I sit on 4GB of expensive DDR2 1066 memory that only can run in 800 anyway (if I want to use 4GB, which I want).
Asus only says that they are notto blame.
Poor marketing if you ask me...
/nin

is this board backwards compadable?
Can I use DDR2 if I can't afford DDR3 at this time?
Asus P5K3 Deluxe WiFi & Corsair TWIN3X-2048 1333C9DHX