Kingston 2GB DDR3 for $506

[NoPeace]

1375MHz at 7-7-7-20

Kingston already has some DDR3 1375 MHz memory and this might be the fastest one you can buy today. We found out that it is available for $506 at this site here.

This is actually not that bad price for 2x1GB of brand new DDR3 memory but compared to DDR2 prices it is ridiculously expensive. Some memory manufactures said that DDR3 at these speeds could easily go even over $600 fir 2 GB.

Samples are also available as we speak.

Source: Fudzilla - Kingston 2GB DDR3 for $506

Insane prices! You can get 2gb of DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 for just $100 and if you want DDR-1200 at 5-5-5 timing it will still be less then that DDR3. What a joke of a price and for such lousy timings.

NoPeace - out

 

[kip0130]

wow imagine if you lowerd the timings and upped the volatges

 

[Sardaukar]

DDR 3 has insane overclocking potential though Thats the price yoru paying for right now..


But give it another year, and for 250 bucks, you can get 3-3-3-8 DDR3 high performance, and probably overclock it nearly 40-50% on top of what it has right now.. thats hte potential I've been hearing about.

 

[kip0130]

DDR 3 has insane overclocking potential though Thats the price yoru paying for right now..


But give it another year, and for 250 bucks, you can get 3-3-3-8 DDR3 high performance, and probably overclock it nearly 40-50% on top of what it has right now.. thats hte potential I've been hearing about.

same here think of it O'ced to 1600mhz-2ghz its faster than my sempron

 

[NoPeace]

same here think of it O'ced to 1600mhz-2ghz its faster than my sempron

2ghz RAM wont do you any good if they timings are 15-15-15-30 or higher. Which I know 1600mhz is already over 10-10-10.

You'll have to wait for 2 years for the chips to be refined enough to get good timings. That's how long it took DDR2.

And then probably be 2-3 years for the prices to drop as how it did with DDR2.

But the reason for this thread is to show off how ridiculous the prices are. A 3-3-3-8 DDR-1066 will outperform any DDR3 >= 1200mhz simple for the fact that you can't get good timings out of them as of now.

Sure you can get the stuff up to 2ghz but that wont help if the timings are so bad that it negates the performance gain.

NoPeace - out

 

[Sardaukar]

2ghz RAM wont do you any good if they timings are 15-15-15-30 or higher. Which I know 1600mhz is already over 10-10-10.

You'll have to wait for 2 years for the chips to be refined enough to get good timings. That's how long it took DDR2.

And then probably be 2-3 years for the prices to drop as how it did with DDR2.

But the reason for this thread is to show off how ridiculous the prices are. A 3-3-3-8 DDR-1066 will outperform any DDR3 >= 1200mhz simple for the fact that you can't get good timings out of them as of now.

Sure you can get the stuff up to 2ghz but that wont help if the timings are so bad that it negates the performance gain.

NoPeace - out

But.. but.. BUT! Its 2GHz.. thats K3WL!


haha, actually you are perfectly right, the benchmarks wont increawse much more until the chip processors are refined, that will take an awful long time to do properly.. so jsut stick with DDR2 for now and the AMD/Intel chips that still support DDR2

 

[NoPeace]

But.. but.. BUT! Its 2GHz.. thats K3WL!


haha, actually you are perfectly right, the benchmarks wont increawse much more until the chip processors are refined, that will take an awful long time to do properly.. so jsut stick with DDR2 for now and the AMD/Intel chips that still support DDR2

The shame thing about DDR3 is that you need a whole new motherboard to support it. And if you already have 4gb of DDR2 it make no since to get a DDR3 board over a DDR2 board if you are upgrading anyways.

More companies should be like MSI. Have boards with both DDR2 and DDR3 slots on it. That way people will only need to buy one board, use their current memory, and then upgrade to DDR3 when it become practical.

NoPeace - out