Quick Q on dual mem type mobo

[Oobie-]

Hey guys,
Just putting together a PC for my bro, and I was wondering what the Asus P5KC and Gigabyte GA P35C are like, as it makes sense to purchase DDR2 and then be able to upgrade "easily" to DDR3 when needed - I say easily in the sense that he wont have to change his mobo in order to use DDR3.

So I just wanted to know if the Asus board is any different from its p5k variants, same question applies to the Gigabyte board.

Links to each board:
ASUS and GIGABYTE

Thanks

[zephod]

I was under the impression that the p5k, p5k3 and p5kC were all the same board except for the memory slot variation. Know little about the Gigabyte offering.

[Tetras]

Asus have a P5K comparison chart here:
http://event.asus.com/mb/p5k/spec.html

From what I can see the P5KC is very similar to the P5K feature and PCB wise (except for stack cool 2 and the 2x DDR3 slots obviously ).

You can use the more indepth comparison tool here: http://www.asus.com.tw/products_compare.aspx?l1=3&l2=-1
to see if there is anything else missing or added between specific versions.

The Gigabyte board is probably a similar thing again, I think Gigabyte only produce 2 (maybe 3?) P35 PCBs and all are just revisions of those. If you find the matching versions reading reviews of those should give you a good idea about what the DDR2/3 combos are like.

[CooperXS]

Boards are absolutely similar except additional memory slots, because P35 chipset has memory controller supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memory types.