News - G.Skill to launch 2,666MHz RipjawsZ memory kit

[HEXUS]

Extreme quad-channel 16GB kit does 2,666MHz at 1.65V.

Read more.

[edvinasm]

Worst investment ever. Kingston Grey 2x4 kits by two for around $80 will do nearly as much as this kit (priced around $180 I guess). Increase in any application will be minimal.

[Hoonigan]

Increase in any application will be minimal.

But there will be an improvement, which is the whole point, some people will pay a lot more for a mere 2% performance increase.

[shaithis]

Worst investment ever. Kingston Grey 2x4 kits by two for around $80 will do nearly as much as this kit (priced around $180 I guess). Increase in any application will be minimal.

Llano owners could see a significant performance increase.

[Terbinator]

Llano owners could see a significant performance increase.

Although if you was spending that much on RAM for your iGPU you'd be better off going discrete.

[edvinasm]

Increase in any application will be minimal.

But there will be an improvement, which is the whole point, some people will pay a lot more for a mere 2% performance increase.

That's true. Some people need not to know about value. They buy things because they can.

[edvinasm]

Llano owners could see a significant performance increase.

Although if you was spending that much on RAM for your iGPU you'd be better off going discrete.

True that. Also, I am yet to see Llano board supporting those frequencies and making a good use of that.

[Hoonigan]

That's true. Some people need not to know about value. They buy things because they can.

And companies make these things because people will buy them.

G.Skill will also, most likely, see increased sales in their lower end RAM sets too. Companies make the best of the best, so they can make a good name for themselves, which then helps them shift the stuff at the lower end where the real money is made.