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Read more.New triple channel memory kits designed specifically to work with Intel?s impending Core i7 processors.
What about prices?
probably priced high enough to make an oil tycoon cry...
say for £700 (just an example, I don't know the pricing either) for the 3GB kit? SWEET!
Last edited by sawyen; 17-10-2008 at 05:29 PM. Reason: confusion.. really just a status quo
Me want Ultrabook
Where did you get the £700 from?
Good point, OCZ didn't provide pricing and it doesn't seem to be on those links either...
It was really just an example... my bad...Originally Posted by sawyen
Me want Ultrabook
I forgot to read the first word of your sentence
I saw triple channel ram at overclockers but they were costing as much as the cpu or motherboard...
Well going on current DDR3 pricing, you could get 3 1GB sticks of 1333MHz C9 for ~£150 from crucial so factor in the tighter timings, voltage set to 1.65v as Intel suggest as a max and you will probably be looking at £200 I would expect.
With the processors themselves priced relatively affordably (c. £250 for 2.66GHz cheapest model, according to prices at overclockers before they removed them, with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad currently costing c. £180 I think), it seems a shame the other essential components are set to be so expensive. It'll deter most bar those with money, as in all cases it'll need a new motherboard, and most cases new RAM. What's more, for people such as myself with 8GB RAM (£100, btw), "upgrading" to say the 6GB of DDR3 mentioned in the article, would cost me hundreds of pounds but actually decrease my computer's performance - I already tried 6GB DDR2 and found it to be insufficient on Vista with no paging file.
Until I can get that amount of DDR3 at a reasonable price (say less than £200), Core i7 is out of the question for me.
When is the I7 out. I'm gonna sell my current rig and start building a x58 rig
Taking a quick gander at DDR3 prices again you can get 6GB (3x2GB) of Corsair DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24 in a tri channel kit for £210 from Scan so while still expensive compared to DDR2 not the end of the world, of course you are going to need the £250 for the CPU and £200 for the motherboard as well. That £660 could buy you a lot of Core 2 grunt, and if gaming I'm sure the money would be better spent on graphics cards.
Off Topic: Huftda do you really run 2x 1GB 4870's under Vista 32? you must have less than 2GB of system memory addressedget a copy of 64 bit now!
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