Why there's no triple channel DDR3 in the shop.

[Skyforger]

Im looking for 12 GB RAM 3x 4gb DDR 3 but i can't find any.

 

[Borealis]

Triple channel became obsolete when the X58 platform was discontinued, so I doubt you'll find it for sale new.

 

[Skyforger]

Triple channel became obsolete when the X58 platform was discontinued, so I doubt you'll find it for sale new.

Ok didn't know, will look on e-bay.

Quick suggestion what to get ?

 

[marc2003]

All you need is 3 identical sticks of ram. There's nowt special about a triple channel pack.

 

[Skyforger]

All you need is 3 identical sticks of ram. There's nowt special about a triple channel pack.

Ok thnx.

 

[ishoeyi]

x58 platform works with dual channel too

buy the fastest dual channel the mb can handle
it can make up for slow triple channel.

 

[setter]

All you need is 3 identical sticks of ram. There's nowt special about a triple channel pack.

This tbh, a quad channel ddr3 kit would be fine and have one stick spare. X58 mostly used 1.65v rated ram which the vast majority of ddr3 is.

 

[yashiro]

Yeah, the 'channel' stuff is all nonsense. Three of the same stick will run in 'triple' channel just fine or you can just go for a dual channel kit. It makes next to no difference in games.
Most X58's can run in flex mode too. You can usually put whatever DDR3 ram you want in there - if capacity is all you care about.

At this point I'd recommend you just get a common 16GB dual channel kit. Having recently gone from 6GB(C7/1.65V/Triple) to 16GB(C9/1.5V/Dual) myself I've not noticed a degradation in performance. The benchmarks I ran did come out in favour of the old kit, obviously, but I needed more capacity. Being a few percent slower in a benchmark doesn't bother me.

This is the kit I picked up for my old EX58-UD5. BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00CEU. It was only forty odd quid in a sale.