3 SUPERB DEALS TODAY - FORUM MEMBERS ONLY

Disappointed. I have enough RAM and this is hardly earth breaking. Good for those who need DDR3 ram though I suppose.
 
I was expecting a massive discount on graphics cards.. like another forum.

Oh well! Two more deals today. One can hope...
 
TaKeN said:
I was expecting a massive discount on graphics cards.. like another forum.

Oh well! Two more deals today. One can hope...
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Ditto, though this way is probably better. It's fairer to have a moderate offer for everyone rather than a stonker for 1 or 2 who can F5 fastest.

Though how about slightly better offers for members with longer membership/more posts? ;)
 
Am I the only person happy with the first deal? I've had one of these 3x2gb kits since buying my i7 and was waiting for 24gig (6x4gb) kits to come down from their stupidly high price....

As it looks like DDR5 will be out before DDR3 4gb sticks cost less than £100 each, I decided this deal was a low enough price to "make do" with 12gigs. I'm happy! Thank you!

Edit: I realise you *can* get ECC 3x4gb kits for just under £300 - but they're low-bandwidth and ECC.
 
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OliW said:
Am I the only person happy with the first deal? I've had one of these 3x2gb kits since buying my i7 and was waiting for 24gig (6x4gb) kits to come down from their stupidly high price....
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Nope, selling strongly at present.

I think the problem is we set the bar very high with the Seagate 2TB deal. Deals like that can't happen every day or week, not if you want to stay in business.

The deals we have today are very good, best in the UK prices, but we are not about to start losing huge amounts of money on every order.
 
OliW said:
Am I the only person happy with the first deal? I've had one of these 3x2gb kits since buying my i7 and was waiting for 24gig (6x4gb) kits to come down from their stupidly high price....

As it looks like DDR5 will be out before DDR3 4gb sticks cost less than £100 each, I decided this deal was a low enough price to "make do" with 12gigs. I'm happy! Thank you!
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It's not that others aren't happy per se, it's just that a 6gb tri channel kit has a bit of a niche audience, ie those building i7 rigs today or people like yourself making the jump from 6 to 12gb.

You also have to remember that without the free shipping most forum members have, it's still £115 for 6gb of 1600mhz RAM. With free shipping and no offers the Patriot viper and OCZ obsidian kits are only £120 anyway. Hardly a superb deal - Sorry Spie, don't ban me :(
 
inflynx said:
Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64GB is 4GB more and costs even less than OCZ with free shipment.
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Since the release of the Vertex drive, OCZ have always listed the "formatted" capacity. Kingston along with the others use "unformatted" capacity instead.

The Kingston is also an OEM drive rather than the retail product.
 
PiKe said:
It's slower than the OCZ tho.
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You got any benchmarks or reviews of the newer SNVP-325 Kingston? I can only find reviews of the older SNV225 model, i'm guessing performance could change, it only takes small firmware changes sometimes.
 
PiKe said:
It's slower than the OCZ tho.
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OCZ:
- Cache: 32MB
- Read: Up to 230MB/sec
- Write: Up to 135MB/sec

Kingston:
- Cache: 64MB
- Read: Up to 230MB/sec
- Write: Up to 180MB/sec

How exactly is it slower?

Slackworth said:
The Kingston is also an OEM drive rather than the retail product.
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Does retail OCZ include 2.5'' to 3.5'' adapter?
 
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