I'm quite the gamer loving to play all the latest graphics intensive games at 1920x1200 with max settings and I'm ready to leave behind my NF590 to something new.. futureproof, yet not insanely unnecessary. X38 is really catching my eye, but unsure about the DDR3 only situation with it being so new.. P35 is interesting with some of the boards accepting DDR2 as well, but doesn't have PCI-E v2 which may or may not be a bad thing. My ram died, so I'm limpin along with 512m of cheap kingston ram in Vista making sure it was the ram that went bad, not the mb. I have to buy ram now.. It appears the ram i had is the best kind.. the C4 Corsair 6400 v1.2 rev A Micron stuff. I also don't plan on going SLI ever, but am interested in getting a Penryn cpu.
Are the Dual16x lanes overkill with my situation or even with the one 8800GTX would the 2nd 16x be futureproofing something new that would utilize the full bandwidth? Am i ok sticking with my current ram selection on a P35 board that accepts DDR3 as well or should I go with DDR3 later on an X38 and just limp along with the cheap kingston stuff for now on my NF590? X38 better off waiting for, to get DDR3 more established? The more I read, the more questions I end up wanting to ask.
Any help would be appreciated!
Are the Dual16x lanes overkill with my situation or even with the one 8800GTX would the 2nd 16x be futureproofing something new that would utilize the full bandwidth? Am i ok sticking with my current ram selection on a P35 board that accepts DDR3 as well or should I go with DDR3 later on an X38 and just limp along with the cheap kingston stuff for now on my NF590? X38 better off waiting for, to get DDR3 more established? The more I read, the more questions I end up wanting to ask.
Any help would be appreciated!