2x the RAM is 3x the price.....

PistolPete

PistolPete

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PistolPete said:
Hi there.

I've been looking at prices and I noticed this:

G.Skill RipJaw 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel Kit for £109.99.

Below it was this:
G.Skill RipJaw 24GB (6x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel Kit for £299.00

The spec is the same - why would you pay £299.00 for 6 sticks of RAM, when 2x3 sticks of RAM is 219.98 or am I missing something here??
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Pricing is out on the 24gb kits I know so you are quite right. If your looking to buy then I would certainly look at 2 lots of the 12GB kit.
:)
 
A 24gb kits is 'matched' and tested so to speak with the same serial numbers etc. If you got 2x 12gb kits you might not get the same serial numbers and the potential is there that they will not overclock the same.

/manufacturer spiel

....but in reality they will all use the same IC's so I wouldn't worry. Each module will clock slightly differently anyway so I dunno why manufacturers say that.

Get 2x12gb ;)
 
back in the day i used 2 completely different sticks and still got dual channel..

i think its all a bunch of BS to get you to buy a "matched" set from the manufactures
 
I'm tempted. I've currently got a white box running W2K8 and Hyper-V with 4 hosts.
I want a lab to play with load of W2K8 machines as my old MCSEs are well out of date with the MCITP out, but my current server is a Asus P5Q Premium, a Q8400S with 8GB of DDR2 ram. 16GB (4x4GB) is supported in this board, but it's rare as hens teeth and usually about £300. CPU wise it's barely taxing the current one so I could sell the board, CPU and RAM putting it towards a DDR3 system running 24GB RAM - easily enough for 14 hosts @ 1.5GB each.
 
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