Read more.Is it time for high-density modules?
Read more.Is it time for high-density modules?
£180.
Aria are currently ding 2x8GB for £40 - 1333/9-9-9-27.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
Can you provide a link? The cheapest 2x8Gb kit I can see on Aria is this one for £76 here.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
Probably an obvious question, but if you have 4 x 4GB modules is there a performance hit over a dual channel kit? The last PC I built was an AMD 3200 XP (almost 10 years ago) and back then if you added more memory it stopped it running in dual channel mode so the performance went down. I was wondering if this is still the same on the modern systems.
Don't think so...
Depends on the memory controller and chipset. All DDR3 is run in dual channel mode, and modern platforms just have multiple lanes of channels. The performance hit is more in power consumption, because there are minute tradeoffs like refresh rates improving performance when loads are spread over multiple sticks of RAM vs increased interconnect synchronization and a bunch of other fooey, but on any modern platform the difference would be at most extremely minute. I do want to mention usually 2x8 is often cheaper than 4x4 or close enough that you might as well just get the higher desnity chips because it leaves room for expansion in 3 - 4 years.
Unless you're using 1 stick of course, as proved by this review But yes, modern memory controllers run 2 channels, with 2 slots per channel, so you can run 4 sticks happily in dual channel mode.
The only thing that might alter performance is that sometimes the memory controllers in the CPUs can only manage a certain number of "banks" of memory at full speed, so if your RAM is double-sided it may refuse to run it at full clock speed (certainly this happened with the DDR3 controller in the Phenom II series of CPUs)
EDIT: Incidentally, Hexus, have you considered doing memory gaming tests with an AMD A-series APU set-up? The more powerful graphics processor is more sensitive to memory speed, so it'd be interesting to see the difference between, say, 1600MHz, 1833MHz and 2133MHz memory on that platform...
Agreed, would love to see results on A6/8/10 APUs......does seem slightly pointless doing the gaming test on an Intel IGP.
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For purely trivial results, its definitely worth looking into. On the other hand, it would be unfair to use an APU for the gaming tests. The extra cost needed induced by faster RAM would negate the original attraction towards an APU.
Edit: The price difference isn't actually that much now between 1600MHz kits and higher (£25 extra to get some 2133MHz stuff).
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
and dont forget the headline limit for windows 7 home premium is 16GB of ram anyway.... pointless getting 32GB
Cheers for the info, it is appreciated. Just need to save up some pennies and decide when to take the plunge!
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