Motherboard Changing

Nowadays, people tend to use a newer version of memory, which is DDR2. And so do I. DDR2 can perform faster than the previous version of DDR, so it became pretty essential for modern desktop.

Unfortunately, my old motherboard doesn't support this newtype DDR cause it support up to DDR400 and couldn't go to DDR2 which start from working frequency of 533. I made up my mind on using DDR2 memory, so I go to some computer mall and hunt some decent motherboard. And after spent some time searching for 'em, I decided to buy a GIGABYTE motherboard coded GA-965PDS3.

This motherboard uses Intel 965 chipset and cost me about $150 at the time I bought them, and I'm pretty sure the price should have gone down by now. The other feature this motherboard offers was three PCI slot, one PCIe 16x, 8 SATA port, realtek 8 channel onboard audio with digital (S/PDIF) output, four memory socket with dual channel configuration, and it's using gigabyte's famous solid capacitor for longer durability. It also support quadcore processor and of course DDR2 (up to DDR2 800).

Upon changing my motherboard, I put my Corsair TwinX2 1Gb DDR2 667 into two of four socket and also my old 2.66 GHz Pentium D in its place. Well I don't feel the difference immediately, but when I tried it on some game, it does have a better performance than my previous one, and I'm pretty much satisfied in investing on this board.