New PC Spec

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 24 Dec 2009

HI Friends ,

My friend need help to build PC he gave me a spec

GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AMD 785G Motherboard
Phenom X4-9500 @ 3GHZ
2 GB DDR 3 transcend
500 GB SEAGATE

I need some suggestions to improve this or is this spec good

Thanks
Captain

Uber Philf · 24 Dec 2009

It's not too bad IMO, but maybe 4GB would be more "standard"

whs · 24 Dec 2009

Throw an SSD for the operating system in, e.g. this one ( Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex Turbo OCZSSD2-1VTXT60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Solid State Disks ). That would speed up the system considerably.

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 24 Dec 2009

I thought about the RAM ... Can someone time me difference between DD2 and DD3 RAM .. I'm not quiet sure whether that make much difference in performance

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 24 Dec 2009

whs said:

Throw an SSD for the operating system in, e.g. this one ( Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex Turbo OCZSSD2-1VTXT60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Solid State Disks ). That would speed up the system considerably.

I'm not sure whether he can afford that .. Because his price is quiet limited .. I would recommend that to him

Uber Philf · 24 Dec 2009

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

I thought about the RAM ... Can someone time me difference between DD2 and DD3 RAM .. I'm not quiet sure whether that make much difference in performance

It's mainly just a difference in clock speed, DDR3 has a much higher maximum clock speed compared to DDR2 or DDR.

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 24 Dec 2009

Uber Philf said:

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

I thought about the RAM ... Can someone time me difference between DD2 and DD3 RAM .. I'm not quiet sure whether that make much difference in performance

It's mainly just a difference in clock speed, DDR3 has a much higher maximum clock speed compared to DDR2 or DDR.

Thanks mate .. I guess its better to stay with DDR3

win7clutz · 24 Dec 2009

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

HI Friends ,

My friend need help to build PC he gave me a spec

GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AMD 785G Motherboard
Phenom X4-9500 @ 3GHZ
2 GB DDR 3 transcend
500 GB SEAGATE

I need some suggestions to improve this or is this spec good

Thanks
Captain

This is a DDR2 board so he can't run DDR3 mem...

stormy13 · 24 Dec 2009

Might want to give the specs on that motherboard a good look,

Memory

4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory (Note 1)
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR2 1333(O.C.) /1066/800 MHz memory modules (Note 2)

GA-MA785G-UD3H (rev. 1.0) - GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Specification

It won't work with DDR3, DDR2 only. Also a big no on that 9500, if he wants a quad core look at something from the Phenom II or Athlon II series.

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 24 Dec 2009

Oh Ok ... Thanks guys for bringing that to my notice.
So what board will work with Phenom X4-9500 @ 3GHZ with DDR3??