How do i know if it's time to upgrade a motherboard?

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Dstarzero

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#160631 14-Jan-2015 09:41

Current motherboard is ASUS P6T Deluxe V2. what's and indication that it's time for an upgrade?

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Jase2985

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#1214717 14-Jan-2015 12:46

Dstarzero: fair enough. Was looking at DDR4 Ram and I wasn't sure if this motherboard would support it.

unless you brought it in the last 4-6months it wont support it

those products are still in their first gen so they are still very expensive compared to the current DDR3 offerings.

Im still on DDR2 but its about time for an upgrade but i doubt ill be going to DDR4 unless the price drops significantly

JWR

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#1214927 14-Jan-2015 16:09

Dstarzero:
JWR:
Dstarzero: fair enough. Was looking at DDR4 Ram and I wasn't sure if this motherboard would support it.

I wouldn't worry about DDR4 at all.

It's new, expensive, supported only on handful of CPUs/Motherboards.

There is nothing really compelling about DDR4 yet.

Besides, your motherboard supports triple channel DDR3. Almost all the latest CPUs/motherboard still only support dual channel DDR3.

btw. I have DDR4. But, I only got it because I had to. My motherboard and CPU don't support anything else.

cheers, so I just add on any other DDR3 ram? would that be ok? I have a Corsair dominator 1600 6 GB (3 x 2gb) ram at the moment

If you go to... http://www.asus.com/nz/Motherboards/P6T_Deluxe_V2/HelpDesk_Manual/

Download English version of the manual.

Pages 2-12 and 2-13 have info. on best memory configurations.

Seems like max. supported memory is 6 x 4MB = 24MB RAM.