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Cita8 said:
These and the Vulkan Tuf aren’t on the ASRock Z370 Extreme4 Qvl.
That’s the board I’m looking at getting.
Price, quality? and features seem the best.
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I wouldn't worry too much about what is and isn't on a given motherboards QVL. Its DDR4 designed to a certain standard, if you were to buy some and in the unlikely event it didn't work you could always send it back, wouldn't cost much for something as light as RAM.
 
Cita8 said:
These and the Vulkan Tuf aren’t on the ASRock Z370 Extreme4 Qvl.
That’s the board I’m looking at getting.
Price, quality? and features seem the best.
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Will be fine, you have any issues just post here, we shall then let Asrock know who will issue a BIOS to resolve.
 
sgoaty said:
It is linked but now my address is classed as Highlands and Islands ( despite being 65 miles from the Highlands) it would be nice to see a Royal Mail option or at least get discounted DPD shipping. I get what you're saying on the price of the RAM and I want to give my money to OCUK because of the forum and the previous great service. I just can't bring myself to pay such a high delivery cost for such a small and light package.
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MasterOC said:
I run into the same issue , even with my free forum shipping , have a word with CS in the forums and see what they can do … in my very long purchase history , theres not a lot these guys wont do to help . being a small order may hinder there ability but never hurts to have a word.
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ree said:
i fell foul of this recently too with a competitor, i also live in aberdeenshire which is mainland last i knew and they classed me as highlands and islands and wanted a ludicrous £16 for dpd to deliver a 1.8m displayport cable, i obviously shopped elsewhere. there needs to be a crackdown on this nonsense as it's robbery without violence.
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Cita8 said:
Yep, delivery companies taking p**s. I know someone near Elgin and they have the same issue.
Aberdeenshire isn’t in the Highlands, the Highlands are the Highlands FFS. :mad:
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In OCUK's case the problem lies solely with DPD. They class more or less anywhere north of Dundee as non UK mainland. Are we seperated by some vast sea? No. Which means we are UK mainland. When the three shops whose forum membership entitled me to free delivery switched to DPD I lost my free delivery and one of them now expects me to pay anything from £10.15-15.80 for delivery. Needless to say I haven't used them again since and the other two have also lost sales from me. All of this free UK delivery advertising is a lottery as to whether we will actually get it and this was supposed to have been clamped down on earlier in the year. How can any company advertise free UK delivery when they exclude large areas of mainland UK. The advertising Standards Agency has a interesting article here, this part is particulalrly interesting:-

As the UK is technically made up of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and multiple islands off the coast of each, an absolute claim to offer “[Free/£X/Next Day] UK Delivery” should mean that you offer the advertised delivery service to any and all of these locations. If, for whatever reason, you are unable to extend your advertised delivery service to certain postcodes, the islands or the Highlands, then such a claim is likely to mislead. Qualifying this with exclusions is unlikely to be sufficient as this is likely to result in a misleading contradiction rather than a clarification.

We would generally advise caution when using the phrase “UK Mainland”, though it may be acceptable if you are only excluding the ‘islands’ and Northern Ireland, and you clearly qualify the claim to make this clear. However, the Highlands of Scotland would reasonably be considered to be part of the UK mainland – so claiming “[Free/etc.] UK Mainland Delivery” but excluding the Highlands or indeed any other location that falls within the major landmass of Great Britain is unlikely to be considered acceptable.
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Despite these new guidelines being drawn up nothing has changed and we are still paying over the odds for a third class delivery service. Worst abusers are of course Ebay and Amazon sellers, several of which have tried to charge me extortionate delivery charges or cancelled my order with no communication to me at all. It's about time the delivery market was given a kick in the butt to standardise delivery areas and charges instead of this random farce that we have now.
 
Gibbo said:
Will be fine, you have any issues just post here, we shall then let Asrock know who will issue a BIOS to resolve.
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The only problem is how is he going to update the BIOS if the RAM doesn't post? I'm 90% certain he won't have any problems anyway and a BIOS update could take some time.

EDIT: Unless you mean the problems may be with hitting the advertised speeds.
 
nlel1975 said:
The only problem is how is he going to update the BIOS if the RAM doesn't post? I'm 90% certain he won't have any problems anyway and a BIOS update could take some time.

EDIT: Unless you mean the problems may be with hitting the advertised speeds.
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If it works out the box which I’m sure it will then all sorted.
Only concern is speed. It might not go to 3200 without bios update.

Talking of which, with the 8700k OC’d to 4.7 and 1080 Ti, would cheaper 3000 be good enough and if so would 3000 OC to 3200 in future?
 
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Even with 2133 memory and a 1080ti you're not going to lose 50% performance, it's something like about 20% extra with fast RAM so I am sure 3000 would be ok. Don't quote me on that though as I have an RX 580 so RAM speed doesn't interest me.
 
Tute said:
Any chance of getting that 32gb kit under £200 for black friday?
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Gibbo said:
I dont have a crystal ball, if memory keeps dropping, yes, if it stops dropping or goes back up then no.
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Obviously it is hard to say but I think I’ll go for one 16GB kit just now and another in BF deals. Get my build up and running.
You reckon that’d be the best strategy?
 
Cita8 said:
Obviously it is hard to say but I think I’ll go for one 16GB kit just now and another in BF deals. Get my build up and running.
You reckon that’d be the best strategy?
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Sensible, end of the day even if it gets silly cheap, I don't see decent 16G kit under £90, I'd not be worrying about a potential £20 saving in 1-2 months I'd just rather get the rig built and start gaming now.
 
Gibbo said:
Sensible, end of the day even if it gets silly cheap, I don't see decent 16G kit under £90, I'd not be worrying about a potential £20 saving in 1-2 months I'd just rather get the rig built and start gaming now.
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Good show :)

1080 Ti for £580 now I see. How’d you see those prices going over next couple of months?
I know discussed before about no stocks from oem’s and prices etc but where has this deal come from? Are oem’s drip feeding stock?
 
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Gibbo said:
Sensible, end of the day even if it gets silly cheap, I don't see decent 16G kit under £90, I'd not be worrying about a potential £20 saving in 1-2 months I'd just rather get the rig built and start gaming now.
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Don't suppose you'll get a 3200mhz speed of that Vulkan 32GB kit sale price soon?
 
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Ok, final order placed. Gone for the 16GB Vulkan TUF 3200mhz kit.
Will look out for good prices in BFriday for another 16GB kit. Hope that this strategy will work out :confused:
If it does go to £99 as Gibbo mentioned, no guarantees mind, it would mean I'd have 32GB faster 3200mhz ram for £230.
The same price as the 32GB 3000mhz kit and it looks great too. ;)
 
Order:
£119.16 x 1 - Asrock Z370 Extreme 4 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
£107.49 x 1 - Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac
£35.79 x 1 - Scythe SCMG-5100 Mugen 5 CPU Cooler
£0.00 x 1 - Two Fan Bundle - Phanteks PH-F140MP PWM 140mm Fan - Radiator Performance
£6.77 x 1 - Phanteks PH-F140MP PWM 140mm Fan
£6.78 x 1 - Phanteks PH-F140MP PWM 140mm Fan
£11.66 x 1 - Phanteks RGB LED Strip Starter Kit (PH-LEDKT_CMBO)
Sub-Total: 287.65
Shipping: 9.25
VAT: 59.38
Total: 356.28
 
Now for the 'I hope so' question :confused:

Will the 4x8GB sticks be ok in the ASRock as opposed to 2x16GB's. No slowdowns or problems with XMP?
And, will buying another 16GB kit, albeit from the same model and size, be ok?
Never had a problem adding more memory of the same size and model before but haven't built a rig for about 5 years.

Thanks all :)
 
Cita8 said:
Now for the 'I hope so' question :confused:

Will the 4x8GB sticks be ok in the ASRock as opposed to 2x16GB's. No slowdowns or problems with XMP?
And, will buying another 16GB kit, albeit from the same model and size, be ok?
Never had a problem adding more memory of the same size and model before but haven't built a rig for about 5 years.

Thanks all :)
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We find filling 2 dimm slots is better than filling 4 slots, the moment you fill 4 you put more load on the CPU's memory controller and that generally means you can't clock the RAM quite as high, so do bear that in mind.
 
Gibbo said:
We find filling 2 dimm slots is better than filling 4 slots, the moment you fill 4 you put more load on the CPU's memory controller and that generally means you can't clock the RAM quite as high, so do bear that in mind.
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Ok, thanks Gibbo. Will you be getting the 32GB kit? Or would I be better off with the 16GB 3000mhz Vulkan gaming then?
Memory still on pre-order so I can change it.
 
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