Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition Processor Support DDR3?

Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition Processor Support DDR3?

I was asking cause I see mobos supporting DDR3 for socket 775. Thanks in advance.

The memory controller is on the motherboard. If the motherboard supports DDR3 AND the Pentium D 965, then you can use them both on that board. I don't see why you would by RAM that's worth so much more than the CPU though . It would be better off with some low latency DDR2.

Yes, not to mention that it can't even come close to the bandwidth of DDR2.

Well reason I'm asking is I saw on tigerdirect That Pentium D Extreme. I just reread that board and misread that it said only Pentiums and was thinking it meant all of them, but thanks to what you pointed out helps. Is this processor worth getting or not?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] u=I69-0965

Any modern Intel CPU would be a better choice.

I must say that's a good price for an EE chip though (even though it's a piece of crap). They usually stay at high prices because the old stock never gets sold. I used to see them going for over $1000 last year.

I got another question that's been bugging me.... Which CPU is better AMD Phenom 9950 or the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200?

And would either be a good bet for DDR3 or would I have to save up for a Phenom II or i7Core 920? Thanks.

Thanks for the information.

The Phenom 9950 is actually very close in performance to the Q8200. But if you overclock the Q8200 it would absolutely destroy the 9950.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/def [...] p=21&p2=52

Thanks for the information. Something I'm been curious about is hyper threading only Intel and Hyper Transport only AMD? Thanks.