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I have an AMD 580x Crossfire motherboard. It's been around for awhile now and it came with my PC when I bought it.

I was curious though if it is capable of running DDR3? It has 4 slots for RAM which is a plus. Although I found this on the wikipedia page for the AMD 580x.

DDR2 support up to DDR2-800 and in 8 GB capacity.

This is the only information I've been able to find on my motherboard. Their own website doesn't tell me anything either. If wikipedia says what I think it means, it is only able to hold up to 8GB of RAM and only DDR2?

I was looking at DDR3 4 x 2GB sticks of RAM, so I really don't want to invest in DDR2 RAM if that's all my mobo will run, but I do need it and don't really have a reason to get a new mobo. There's really no DDR2 sticks either out there in the size I want. They are also more expensive than DDR3.
 
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