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Cheapest i seen in the EU (Germany) was £296.90, not bad for 16GB in dual.
ADATA: 8GB unbuffered DIMMs, get your 8GB unbuffered DIMMs
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Cheapest i seen in the EU (Germany) was £296.90, not bad for 16GB in dual.
An absolute bargain seeing as you can buy 4x4GB for less than £100.
A very niche product at the moment.
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I would rather have this - 16gb is PLENTY
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Sorry, but this post has no relevance, he's posting about the release of 8gb DIMMs, not 4gb ones.
It doesn't matter how much RAM the user needs, or if 16gb is plenty, what matters is if they need 8gb DIMMs, now they can have them.
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Sorry, but this post has no relevance, he's posting about the release of 8gb DIMMs, not 4gb ones.
It doesn't matter how much RAM the user needs, or if 16gb is plenty, what matters is if they need 8gb DIMMs, now they can have them.
Its is fairly relevant, this isn't ECC memory for people who want to be extra safe with data checking for work, its basic unbuffered mem and whats more is its called gaming and overclocking memory......... ie they are aiming at a market that seriously in no way needs 16gb memory to start with in almost all situations. This also isn't NF2 days when dual channel both barely made a difference and also wouldn't overclock well with more than 2 dimms.
You'd have to have a screw loose to want to go for a 16gb in two dimms over 4, setup in any formation. If you are buying 16gb with a view to 32gb in the future, you're both almost certain to want ECC mem, and almost certain to save money by going 4x4gb for now, and upgrading later on to 4x8gb sticks when they are way more standard and half the price.
Basically I can't think of a single sane person who would need 32gb, that would also overclock their memory and/or game, overclock and not want ECC memory with that capacity. 32gb's is almost strictly for pretty intensive business use situations, you don't want to buy overpriced overclocking dimms with no ECC.
It doesn't matter how much RAM the user needs, or if 16gb is plenty, what matters is if they need 8gb DIMMs, now they can have them.
And people thought I was mad for spending £220 on 24 Gb a few months ago, and now it turns out I was because it only costs £150 now.
£50 per 2x4 Gb, or around £280 for 2x8 Gb? On ram advertised for gaming?
If you need 8 Gb dimms right now, it isnt for gaming at this price, and workstations need ECC ram.
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Good old OCUK memebers as per normal
Read whats posted before shooting your verbal trap hole off!
Anyone that uses dual channel or only has 2 DIM slots has the option of 16GB now. Thats the point! Not the argument of buying XXXX @ £XXX cost you pesant!
It's also a show of force from ADATA as they are the 1st to produce such a kit and the price aint bad nor are the specs! Oh and this is for home users not servers!
Go slap your self would you! This is news!
Read whats posted before shooting your verbal trap hole off!
Anyone that uses dual channel or only has 2 DIM slots has the option of 16GB now. Thats the point! Not the argument of buying XXXX @ £XXX cost you pesant!
It's also a show of force from ADATA as they are the 1st to produce such a kit and the price aint bad nor are the specs! Oh and this is for home users not servers!
Go slap your self would you! This is news!
If someone has a mobo with only 2 DIMM slots then presumably it is going to be some ***** board; if they have nearly £300 to spend on memory then why are they messing about with that mobo?
I don't think people are knocking the presence of this thread, they are just pointing out that for most people it would be a waste of money. Yes if anyone specifically wants 8GB dimms then it is worth knowing about, however it is still perfectly valid for people to question the reasons as to why anyone would actually want 8GB dimms as for gamers there are very few reasons.
Fact is for less than half the price you can get 16GB of faster memory (PC12800) in 4x4GB format.
I don't think people are knocking the presence of this thread, they are just pointing out that for most people it would be a waste of money. Yes if anyone specifically wants 8GB dimms then it is worth knowing about, however it is still perfectly valid for people to question the reasons as to why anyone would actually want 8GB dimms as for gamers there are very few reasons.
Fact is for less than half the price you can get 16GB of faster memory (PC12800) in 4x4GB format.
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Say ITX formatt. A server, home server, HTPC, games box what ever it be!
Running windows 8 i know id want max ram and currently thats 8GB untill these come out which now means 16GB.
It's new and just out, in 6 months it'll be half that! In a year around a ton i bet!
Running windows 8 i know id want max ram and currently thats 8GB untill these come out which now means 16GB.
It's new and just out, in 6 months it'll be half that! In a year around a ton i bet!
I really do not see why anyone would spend this much money on 2x8GB sticks of RAM, when almost nothing would use this anyway. I have 8GB, and have barely got it up to 5GB usage yet.
When the price comes down to similar to 4x4Gb i'd consider it.
When the price comes down to similar to 4x4Gb i'd consider it.
That's fine in 6 months or a years time then.
For 99.9% of users 8GB DIMMs are irrelevant, certainly at that price.
Most dual channel motherboards now have 4 RAM slots, even microATX, so 8GB DIMMs aren't needed for 16GB of RAM.
Older motherboards, and some of the ITX boards now, don't even support 8GB DIMMs.
What a pleasant post
Not true as not all motherboards with 2 slots support 8GB DIMMs.
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What a pleasant post
Not true as not all motherboards with 2 slots support 8GB DIMMs.
Look at the sodding response of you lot! Christ you lot bitch, cry moan and winge more than a woman on her eriod or labour it's bloody sad!
Exactly my point is valid, stands!
It's good that you're keeping a sense of perspective about this.
Personally I would LOVE 32gb of ram, 8gb for system ram and the remaining 24gb for RAMdisk.
Exactly. Lots of people are getting into smaller form factor stuff now. Imagine an HTPC with a 2600k, 16gb of RAM and a GTX580? Only 2 RAM slots usually on those teeny motherboards.
Dude, reel it in. No-one is being offensive apart from you. That kinda stuff won't be tolerated on this forum.
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If you look in task manager at your free memory in the performance tab, assuming you're running x64 Windows Vista/7, even with 8GB of RAM you'll see that you'll have little available RAM left.
This is down to the way that Windows Vista and 7 aggressively cache in the background. This is assuming that you have Superfetch turned on too.
There may be some PC usages where you may need the maximum amount of RAM for your system. Running multiple concurrent VMs is an example; I have upgraded to 18GB PC12800 recently specifically for this reason.
You can, with these DIMMs, increase the number of concurrently running VMs, or, give each VM you're currently running a little more RAM to play about with.
Not everyone can afford a workstation with the associated costly components and will build themselves one out of general PC parts. These will likely encourage someone when the price drops a little.
For gaming, I think that these DIMMs really have not been sold to the right market. What gamers care about 1333MHz DIMMs these days when you can get cheap PC12800 DIMMs that run at 1.5v? Also the lower voltage is not really going to interest a gamer with a 150W+ graphics card burning through the KWhs
This is down to the way that Windows Vista and 7 aggressively cache in the background. This is assuming that you have Superfetch turned on too.
There may be some PC usages where you may need the maximum amount of RAM for your system. Running multiple concurrent VMs is an example; I have upgraded to 18GB PC12800 recently specifically for this reason.
You can, with these DIMMs, increase the number of concurrently running VMs, or, give each VM you're currently running a little more RAM to play about with.
Not everyone can afford a workstation with the associated costly components and will build themselves one out of general PC parts. These will likely encourage someone when the price drops a little.
For gaming, I think that these DIMMs really have not been sold to the right market. What gamers care about 1333MHz DIMMs these days when you can get cheap PC12800 DIMMs that run at 1.5v? Also the lower voltage is not really going to interest a gamer with a 150W+ graphics card burning through the KWhs