Conclusion: The Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-12800 Memory offers
excellent performance and it overclocks even higher than it's 1600MHz default
memory speed. DDR3 is the new memory standard and if you are upgrading it's an option over the older DDR2. Of course
selecting DDR3 memory means you will require a motherboard that accepts it. The
big advantage DDR3 has over DDR2 is it's much higher speed, but it doesn't have
fast latencies like DDR2 and it's still very expensive.
So while much higher speeds are possible, performance in most applications will
be about the same as DDR2 memory. From my experience DDR2 at 1200MHz is about
the same as DDR3 memory at 1800MHz. That being said, should you upgrade your
motherboard and memory to this new DDR3 memory standard? Well, if you are doing
a complete upgrade I would recommend it, but
otherwise stick with DDR2 memory.
