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Memory bandwidth isn't precisely the best feature of Phenoms. Even in benchmarks there's little difference between DDR2 and 3 with these processors (800 vs 1333 I mean).
Can sw get the DDR generation in an int variable through some method? (or in assembly) Would MS bother?
At least one thing that article says is incorrect: DDR2 RAM features a 64-bit data bus, which is twice the width of DDR RAM’s 32-bit data bus. False. It's 64 bit for all DDR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. What it's true (afaik) is that DDR1 uses 2x 32 bits chips per range, DDR2 4x16 bits and DDR3 8x8 bits. Possibly DDR4 and 5 introduce optimizations to the "classic" scheme of banks (logical/physical), pages (rows) and columns (I'm now reading that each DDR5 DIMM (range?) has two inner 32 bits width "channels" and While the data width is the same (64-bits total) having two smaller independent channels improves memory access efficiency ( DDR4 vs DDR5 RAM: All the Design Challenges & Advantages -Rambus ).
As for DDR2 compatibility with Win10, one case suffices Windows 10 needs 1gb of ram per 32 bit os 2 gb ram per 64 bit os I ran a old emachines with it 3 gigs of ddr2 ram it ran sweet on a old e8400 intel cpu hope this helps. ( Is DDR2 compatable with Windows 10? | Tom's Hardware Forum )