Strange pricing

jonny512379 · 10 Sep 2012 at 18:58

Hi OCuk

Hope you dont mind (and im not after buying them, just spotted them on your home page)

2 sticks of http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-072-PA cost £44.99

4 sticks of http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-071-PA cost £107.99

Unless im missing something here are these not the same?
it would make more sense to buy 2 x 2 sticks for £89.98

Just thought id point this out in case it is a "slip of the pen"
Good price though! (for the 2 sticks that is! :-)

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Jjustme · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:01

Maybe because they're quad channel?
Or do two dual channel kits work as one quad channel?

jonny512379 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:03

i think they are the same thing (although maybe ill be proved wrong, and then i will look very stupid!)

pepp77 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:03

Patriot will have tested the quad channel ram to ensure it will run together at the quoted speeds. The dual channel sets can be used in pairs to go quad channel, but they haven't been tested to guarantee to run at the speeds in a group of 4, only as a pair.

jonny512379 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:06

ahh, i see... maybe im starting to look stupid now....
But at last i have learned not to but 2 sets of dual channel in future!

pepp77 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:09

jonny512379 said:
ahh, i see... maybe im starting to look stupid now....
But at last i have learned not to but 2 sets of dual channel in future!

With those prices I would still buy 2 sets of dual channel as its cheaper and although there's no guarantee on the speed part it will 90% of the time be completely fine as RAM is pretty stable nowadays.

Helios1234 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:30

jonny512379 said:
ahh, i see... maybe im starting to look stupid now....
But at last i have learned not to but 2 sets of dual channel in future!

The modules are exactly the same, just buy two sets of the cheaper ones.

Martini1991 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:53

pepp77 said:
Patriot will have tested the quad channel ram to ensure it will run together at the quoted speeds. The dual channel sets can be used in pairs to go quad channel, but they haven't been tested to guarantee to run at the speeds in a group of 4, only as a pair.

Shouldn't make a difference.

PorkPieCat · 13 Sep 2012 at 22:18

i thought the memory controller was in the CPU, thus making 2 dual channel sets work as a quad anyway. seems like no difference to me.

Surveyor · 14 Sep 2012 at 00:12

PorkPieCat said:
i thought the memory controller was in the CPU, thus making 2 dual channel sets work as a quad anyway. seems like no difference to me.

If the memory controller is dual channel then 4 sticks of RAM will work as 2 dual channel pairs not quad channel.

PorkPieCat · 14 Sep 2012 at 00:46

Surveyor said:
If the memory controller is dual channel then 4 sticks of RAM will work as 2 dual channel pairs not quad channel.

yeah i meant if the cpu controller is quad channel it shouldn't matter which kit you buy - a quad channel, or two dual channels, since they'll both run quad

IC3 · 17 Sep 2012 at 21:11

I agree it is a little bit strange but to make these 4 stick it cost more so it kind of make sense