Memory Hold off on memory purchases

Already bought my DDR3 back when it was still cheap

But then i kind of hate seeing those empty slots on my motherboard...

 

can't wait for 4GB sticks. 16GB for £200...... *drool*

 

The effect of having more memory depends on what you are doing. I've recently upgraded from 4gb to 8gb and did some testing to compare it.
I do a fair bit of image editing so I went for the 8gb. As from this old review it makes a positive difference. I did this testing so I could see if newer systems/software handle it better.
All the tests I did I ran 3 times and averaged.
Sisoft;
Memory bandwidth. 4gb; 19.41Gb/s. 8gb; 19.55Gb/s. (I though it would make much more of a difference here)
Latecny (ns). 4gb; 69. 8gb; 73.
Cache+memory score; 4gb; 70.63. 8gb; 71.

CPC benchmark suite;
4gb; Image; 1332. Video; 2283. Multithreaded; 1383. Overall; 1666
8gb; Image; 1372. Video; 2230. Multithreaded; 1416. Overall; 1673

I used 2 games that I had with in built benchmarks; These are the average fps's from the benchmarks
Just cause 2; 4gb; 54.28fps. 8gb; 53.92.
Dawn of war 2; 4gb 64.53. 8gb; 60.41

These were all done on the system in my sig with a base clock of 160, ram at 1600mhz(9,9,9,24) T1. Running with a 22x multi for 3.5Ghz.

 

Wow, interesting results! I guess keeping to the triple-channel slots is a better choice for general use and gaming then.

 

thanks Bindi

And the World Trade Organisation says that dumping is bad. Pah!

 

I get told by woman my timing is always wrong, I used to get kaked out in Rugby leaving the scrum too slow and now when I'm an old fart my timing is still out. WHY OH WHY did I get some last month.

 

to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. You're a martyr and an angel kovo, thanks

 

Who thinks Bindi should start a rumor site .

 

awesome news thanks bindi :3

 

Well I hope they drop by December 1st when I will be building a new gaming pc from scratch, have my eyes on ddr3 8gb corsair 1600 to add to my set up and coming to a tad short of £140 it would be good to see this drop further by then.

 

When I built my PC I bought "Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.6V" for £62. I might pick up another 4Gb kit if prices get that low again.

Or maybe not - I don't think I'll get a performance boost worth it. £62 to save for an SSD might be a better idea.

 

bindileaks?

 

leakibadgi?

 

I'm not sure which one sounds more perverted lol:.

 

Arg - hope this drops the used market as I'm still looking for a large qty of DDR ECC REG memory for my servers. I have a source for a few but will need ~ 18 sticks for now and more soon after.

 

man knew the end of this year would be good.. but I got huanged

bought this set here for the new rig already

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145249

 

Heh, I am pretty happy I havent made the jump for DDR3 yet

Would be nice to see DDR2 1066 and DDR2 1200 kits get a nice price drop too...

 

Samsung have started producing 8GB SoDIMMs for Dell laptops.

Desktop sticks to follow?

 

I'll be selling my 3month old 2gb ddr2 g-skill near xmas or even mid october time

Works and looks as new

Pictured here - www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_5270.html

So yeah, if your interested or know someone that would be send us a pm and we can sort something out

Cheers, blizz

 

i know, there are currently 2x4GB kits selling for about £200. quite a way for it to drop to affordable.