how is this possible, can someone please explain

[ayzhien]

this motherboard has ddr2 and ddr3 simutaneously, and i heard that mixing ram speeds is going to be an issue

[BondiBlue]

On boards that support two types of memory you can only use one or the other. You can't use DDR2 and DDR3 in the same board at the same time. 

[-rascal-]

11 minutes ago, ayzhien said:

this motherboard has ddr2 and ddr3 simutaneously, and i heard that mixing ram speeds is going to be an issue

 

There were some old oddball Intel sockets/motherboards that supported both DDR2 and DDR3.

It was during the early transition phase when DDR3 was just starting to hit the market.

However, from my knowledge, you can only use EITHER DDR2 or DDR3, and not both at the same time.

 

I guess, instead of how we have DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for Intel 12th/13th Gen, they just combined the two.

 

AMD has that weird DDR2 / DDR3 transition too, when it moved from socket AM2+ to AM3.

 

[SimplyChunk]

6 minutes ago, ayzhien said:

this motherboard has ddr2 and ddr3 simutaneously, and i heard that mixing ram speeds is going to be an issue

Got an AMD version of that board in the cupboard.  It was in my Dad's old rig.  We got him that when the board that my old Athlon Dual core was in that he was using died.  We chose that specifically so he could upgrade a little down the line.  It had the Dual Athlon with DDR2 in it for a while than we got him a bulldozer 4 core with a splash of DDR3 in bit later 

[SpookyCitrus]

You can only use one or the other at a time. Using different ram speeds will default all modules to the speed of the slowest module.

[SimplyChunk]

2 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

I guess, instead of how we have DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for Intel 12th/13th Gen, they just combined the two.

There are probably boards that support both like in OPs Picture but they'll be like hens teeth.  The reason it was so popular back then is socket support went on for years and years over many different generations of CPU

[-rascal-]

2 minutes ago, SimplyChunk said:

There are probably boards that support both like in OPs Picture but they'll be like hens teeth.  The reason it was so popular back then is socket support went on for years and years over many different generations of CPU

 

For sure!

AMD board partners had DDR2 / DDR3 boards as well, during the transition between AM2+ and AM3.

 

I'm pretty sure they could have done that as well for 12th / 13th Gen Intel, but instead, board partners decided to split them up.

That said, there were probably reasons for that (increases the complexity of the board and it's trace routing?).

[BobVonBob]

34 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

For sure!

AMD board partners had DDR2 / DDR3 boards as well, during the transition between AM2+ and AM3.

 

I'm pretty sure they could have done that as well for 12th / 13th Gen Intel, but instead, board partners decided to split them up.

That said, there were probably reasons for that (increases the complexity of the board and it's trace routing?).

Traces or complexity might have been a factor, but I'd bet the biggest one was that DDR5 shifted some of the power circuitry from the motherboard to the DIMMs themselves. DDR5 DIMMs are actually powered differently than DDR4 DIMMs.

[-rascal-]

36 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Traces or complexity might have been a factor, but I'd bet the biggest one was that DDR5 shifted some of the power circuitry from the motherboard to the DIMMs themselves. DDR5 DIMMs are actually powered differently than DDR4 DIMMs.

 

Oh, good call.

I didn't realize power circuitry is different with DDR5.

[ayzhien]

1 hour ago, -rascal- said:

 

There were some old oddball Intel sockets/motherboards that supported both DDR2 and DDR3.

It was during the early transition phase when DDR3 was just starting to hit the market.

However, from my knowledge, you can only use EITHER DDR2 or DDR3, and not both at the same time.

 

I guess, instead of how we have DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for Intel 12th/13th Gen, they just combined the two.

 

AMD has that weird DDR2 / DDR3 transition too, when it moved from socket AM2+ to AM3.

 

lol memory lover motherboard