DDR3 Price Premium Over DDR2 to Shrink to 10% This Year

[candle_86]

What Candle_86 is about right. The increase in latency is covered up by the higher bandwidth but if you compare DDR2-1066 to DDR3-1066 then you'll notice that the DDR2 will perform better as it is since it has lower latencies and shorter clock cycles to make it smoother but you'll find that the DDR3 will overclock much more and it'll use less energy, which would make it reasonably close in performance.
Also, in candle-86's comparison it was slightly unfair to compare a very overclocked DDR2 to a non-overclocked DDR3, and show that it's a small difference, when the DDR3 will overclock much further.

actully jdec's offical DDR2 standard last i checked is capped at 1066 or 1333 its been awhile since i looked and numbers blur

 

[Wile E]

Running mine at DDR 550 with cas 3 timings doesn't come close to being "smoked" by DDR2 800.

No, but I bet my 1200MHz CAS5 smokes em.