Decide to stick with intel socket 1155 setup a bit longer unless ryzen R5 is revolutionary. After switching my 2 x 8GB 1600mhz to the kids pc I am left with a mixture of 2 x 4gb 1333 and 2 x 4gb 1600 sticks installed in my pc. Would it be best to buy 4 x 4GB Hyper X Fury 1866mhz CL10 £111 or Ballistic sport 2 x 8GB 1600mhz and using them with 2 x 4gb 1600 Corsair XMS3 to tatal 24GB? Usage mainly gaming , holiday snaps, if convert my purchased DVD's to watch on iphone or android tablet.
Aye, I would also try and find 2133 RAM whilst I were at it. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k
I'd go for 2x8GB too. I have 2x 8GB Crucial Tactical 1600Mhz. Seems happy enough at 2200Mhz cas10, 1.65v (and 2133, 1.5v iirc). Edit: I paid about £50-£55 on Amazon last year.
I've got 2 x 8GB HyperX Fury 1866, been fine for me, not done any OC'ing on it though, but all that only cost me about £70 in total. Bought 8GB when I built the rig and then bought another 8 a year later at a few quid less. Amazon had it pretty cheap last I looked.
Same thing that happened to DDR4 prices... http://www.pcworld.com/article/3162...t-worse-before-getting-better.html#tk.rss_all
Apparently because of other things using up the memory they stuffed up the prices of desktop memory. ECC/server memory is still quite cheap. But it's your typical old "Fire, flood" etc excuse.
Actually the more I think about it (without Googling, I'm in a good old fashioned mood today ) I think it was something to do with smart phones using up all of the memory, so desktop ram got the hit. I dunno. It's kinda like the fires and floods though, not my problem. If you put your factory on a flood plain and god forbid it floods why the chuff should I have to pay double the price for the memory because of your stupidity? Same went for the fire excuse. That's what insurance is for, not me. I've never paid inflated costs for RAM. I usually just sit it out and wait. I needed some recently so just traded a load of water gear for it instead of putting my hand in my pocket.
It's not that Andy, it's just bog standard supply and demand. Increase in demand (due to fire/flood/whatever) = increase in price to preserve stock Increase in supply (stock levels recover) = decrease in price to sell overstock
It's ridiculous prices for older technology https://www.scan.co.uk/products/16g...22400-(2800)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-12-14-14- Hearing how the i7 7700K not that much of an upgrade and the costing working out about £568 with CPU, mobo and DDR4 RAM, decided to stick with 1155 setup by getting the i7 and hopefully some better RAM. The hunt is back on for 2nd hand ram, but got stung a couple of time, that could have been down to the AM3 setup I had though. Talking of stung my car goes in for an unexpected clutch change tomorow.
if you go 4x4 you may have to run lower RAM timings, I recently made the same choice as you to stick with what I have on my z77 until Ryzen matures and found I struggled with stability once I moved from 2x4 to 4x4, I had to go back to stock on CPU and play with timings until I could get a few hours memtest/prime etc. again, didn't take too much tweaking really just all the testing time to confirm stability again that takes time, I was getting random shutdowns, mobo hard crash etc, which needed psu switch off. It may have been compounded by not being able to find the same spec DDR3 2400 ram but got there in the end dropping from 10-11-11-31-1T to 10-12-12-32-2T hasn't made that much of a dent in performance really and now have 16GB but really I should left it and jumped on Ryzen 5 later. Look at some less fast stuff it is cheaper, 2x8 would of made more sense at £120 and still be faster than 1600/1866 https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/memory-ram/ddr3-(240-pin)-dual-channel-(1800mhz-plus)
Cheers just ordered 2 x 8gb, whilst ordering new sky remote from Amazon. Will sell the rest eventually with a cpu and gpu. [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
