~~~~~DEAL OF THE CENTURY MK2 - 4GB 1600MHz CAS8 Kit ONLY £25.99 Delivered (PRE-ORDER PRICE ONLY)!!!~

Received 3x kits today and decided to test them within my i7 950 system (they will be put into other builds later). At first 6x2GB did not want to play ball and would not boot into Win7 above 1400MHz, even with slack timings. However, after a hard BIOS reset everything is hunky-dorey.

Has passed 1x Memtest run (took 1hour to complete) and currently Priming 8-8-8-24 1T @ 1.6v. 6x2GB in tri-channel mode for £78 - not bad.

Edit: I do have one faulty stick. This is a bit strange, but after every cold boot I get Win7 bootup failure and Memtest streams thousands of errors. I removed all sticks one at a time and then tried each stick individually in single channel. The result is the 1 out of 6 sticks fails to work from a cold boot within any slot/channel. All other sticks appear fine from cold boot. Looks like I shall find out how good OcUK's RMA process is. Damn, I think this is my first ever ram fail.

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Happy to say that 10GB works completely fine within my UDR3 motherboard. Just a shame that one stick is faulty otherwise I would be a really happy bunny. RMA request sent to OcUK (hopefully mine is the only casualty).
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Why are you guys buying so many?
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Personally, I cannot see DDR3 getting any cheaper, and although 12GB is not needed now, it won't be too long before games and apps start benefiting from it. As there is no DDR3 successor on the horizon, this should last for a few years.
 
macfanuk said:
Because at this price, it's worth getting some to keep hold of for future builds. Looking at my finances to see if I can afford more tonight.
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Lol in the future you might be on ddr4. Its going to take ten years for the world to recover from the recession, so i reckon if prices do go up it wont be by much
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Lol in the future you might be on ddr4. Its going to take ten years for the world to recover from the recession, so i reckon if prices do go up it wont be by much
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As gibbo said, these are special offer. The typical price is still approx £45 for 4GB so £25.99 is a bargain and with the number of computers I'm likely to build this year, this may well save me a fortune.
 
Hmm, so OCZ leaves the market with a bang eh?

I resisted for all of... 3 days? Nothing wrong with having a total of 8GB of memory anyway. Unlike my last impromtu DDR2 upgrade, at least the speeds are the3 same (I have 4GB of Corsair XMS3 atm) and I don't mind using the looser timings in all honesty, especially if I get both sets working at 1.5v.

Frankly, if you need some memory, even if you don't plan to upgrade to a DDR3 system for a few months or so, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal than this, so you may as well get this before it runs out.
 
Dear god, more beer money gone :(

Why can I have free shipping on these sticks of RAM and not the 64GB C300 I bought the other day? Cost me £8+ to get special delivery, for a tiny SSD??? Got a £2 radiator grill delivered to me, in Northern Ireland, for free a couple of weeks ago from OcUK... :confused:

Not complaining about the specials at all, amazing prices, but some consistency in postage prices for us NI peeps please? :)
 
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