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[0thehero]

^ Latencies will be higher across the board in DDR3, but given the huge amount of headroom provided by the architecture, I don't see that as a negative.  Once DDR3 gets rolling, it will be the standard.  Latency doesn't mean as much as it used to, especially for overclocking; slower timings don't necessarily equate with poor memory performance, especially if your memory bus speeds are very high.

But I guess the point is, the guy wants to buy something today, not next year at this time, so the P35 is a great chipset and pairing it with DDR2 is not only ensuring great performance but cost-effectiveness.

[Fulmar]

DDR3 latencies will always be higher.  DDR latencies are roughly half of DDR2 and so on and so on.  The clock speed is what makes up for it performance wise.  With prices the way they are now, you can't beat DDR2.

[humble]

I'm not arguing that DDR3 is the future, it clearly is. At this time DDR2 outperforms DDR3 according to everything I've read at toms etc...DDR3 doesnt seem to offer the performance gain it will in the future or reasonable economics. I'm running PC8500 (1066) in my P5K and can overclock my CPU by 30% or more without any instability. Will a DDR3 box is a year beat it....sure but this box appears to have "longer legs" then anything I've ever built.