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Wow, £100 for 8GB of Sammy Green - gone up ~£40 over the past few months. I've read it's going end of life very soon and new kit coming so I'd cancel if I were you.
 
davidmt83 said:
Wow, £100 for 8GB of Sammy Green - gone up ~£40 over the past few months. I've read it's going end of life very soon and new kit coming so I'd cancel if I were you.
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Well I am definitely adjusting my order tomorrow and I probably will just remove both from my order, I selected delivery date for the 27th as I am working and away for a few days anyway
 
Personally, I think you have rushed into a sideways step.

I would have thought Haswell would have been more of an upgrade, add 8gb 2400Mhz memory as Haswell is reported to benefit from such, and a new Samsung Evo SSD with speed boost and you would be flying.

SLI is great if you have a lot of games that benefit, but as you do not state what monitors you are using at what resolution and refresh rate, do you really need it?
 
sastusbulbas said:
add 8gb 2400Mhz memory as Haswell is reported to benefit from such
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This is said all the time but it isn't true. Haswell doesn't benefit from faster memory speeds more than any other system. Haswell can run memory at faster speeds than Ivy/Sandy. The second has somehow merged into the first. At faster speeds you put more strain on the memory controller and it limits overclocking potential, and in most respects you'll only see a difference in memory benchmarks, not real performance.
 
teppic said:
This is said all the time but it isn't true. Haswell doesn't benefit from faster memory speeds more than any other system. Haswell can run memory at faster speeds than Ivy/Sandy. The second has somehow merged into the first. At faster speeds you put more strain on the memory controller and it limits overclocking potential, and in most respects you'll only see a difference in memory benchmarks, not real performance.
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Hmm. Then maybe you should send reviewers in magazine's such as Custom PC your findings n test results. After all, it's them posting test results showing performance improvements with Haswell between 1600Mhz and 2400Mhz ram, which for the small increase in cost they deem worthwhile.
 
sastusbulbas said:
Hmm. Then maybe you should send reviewers in magazine's such as Custom PC your findings n test results. After all, it's them posting test results showing performance improvements with Haswell between 1600Mhz and 2400Mhz ram, which for the small increase in cost they deem worthwhile.
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Yes, you can see very slight improvements in benchmarks. That is my point. You lose stability by overclocking the memory controller for better benchmarks and no noticeable performance increase in reality in most cases. Memory benchmarks are irrelevant except for comparing memory speed.

e.g.

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Kingston/HyperX_Beast_Black_2133_C11/images/aida_read.gif

"Wow, my 1600MHz memory is really bad. I should upgrade to 2666MHz!"

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Kingston/HyperX_Beast_Black_2133_C11/images/handbrake.gif

"Oh"
 
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davidmt83 said:
Wow, £100 for 8GB of Sammy Green - gone up ~£40 over the past few months. I've read it's going end of life very soon and new kit coming so I'd cancel if I were you.
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Can't believe the price of that stuff now. I only paid £65 for 16GB of Sammy green earlier in the year!! :eek:
 
Well I spoke to OCuK today to sort out the Samsung Green Issue and while on the phone I decided to change my order to the following:

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I thought what the heck why not eh? lol I can recover a bit of the extra cost even if only a little bit by selling my i5 2500k, maybe even the mobo as someone might want a cheap Z68 board on fleabay. Either way I get some new tech to play around with and the new smell woot woot
 
Genesis_UK said:
Well I spoke to OCuK today to sort out the Samsung Green Issue and while on the phone I decided to change my order to the following:

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I thought what the heck why not eh? lol I can recover a bit of the extra cost even if only a little bit by selling my i5 2500k, maybe even the mobo as someone might want a cheap Z68 board on fleabay. Either way I get some new tech to play around with and the new smell woot woot
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Very nice. :D
 
Idleman said:
Actually, I prefer the Asus Hero. :p
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I was actually trying to decide between that mobo and the one I picked for a ages... the poor guy on the other end of the phone. In the end from what I have read I would be happy with either and I have used Gigabyte a lot more so comfort zone and all that.
 
teppic said:
Yes, you can see very slight improvements in benchmarks. That is my point. You lose stability by overclocking the memory controller for better benchmarks and no noticeable performance increase in reality in most cases. Memory benchmarks are irrelevant except for comparing memory speed.

e.g.

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Kingston/HyperX_Beast_Black_2133_C11/images/aida_read.gif

"Wow, my 1600MHz memory is really bad. I should upgrade to 2666MHz!"

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Kingston/HyperX_Beast_Black_2133_C11/images/handbrake.gif

"Oh"
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"OH WOW, A couple of pictures!" lol.

Sorry but benchmark improvements are not what last months Custom PC were talking about.

Sure you will see variations in benchmarks, but as they claim a 20% improvement in their multi-tasking test and that they claim the biggest differences were in multi-tasking and games, it seems to give them reason for stating the price difference between 1600Mhz and 2400Mhz as worth paying and back up their comment on that making in between speeds redundant.

Personally I don't recall reading of anyone bottle-necking due to 2400Mhz with Haswell. And feel that for the price of a few pints, getting a few extra frames and quicker multitasking performance seems worthwhile if what some Haswell reviews are claiming is true.
 
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