For sometime now enthusiasts have known that their coveted DDR2 memory would soon be replaced with DDR3. The operable word "soon" has taken on a new meaning as just when it appeared that the change was about to take place evidence to the contrary presented itself. This evidence was multi-tiered and presented itself from several different standpoints:

• A new series of motherboards based on the Intel® P45 express chipset hit the market with the vast majority of the offerings supporting DDR2 in lieu of DDR3
• Several of the major memory manufacturers have recently released new, higher end DDR2 products (DDR2-9200) as well as a number of new high performance 4GB DDR2 kits
• The cost and the latencies of DDR3 have not fallen proportionately given DDR3's length of time on the market to make investment by the masses economically feasible
• The improvement in real world performance using DDR3 as opposed to DDR2 has not been great enough to stimulate a buying frenzy
• The pricing of the current DDR2 high-performance kits is dirt cheap

We at Bjorn3D are convinced that a major migration to DDR3 will take place at some juncture. In the same vein, we feel that a catalyst such as a major price drop and/or significant performance enhancements will have to take place before the current dissenters make a mass move to DDR3.

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