Just remember folks in the UK Buy before Jan 2011 when another 2.5% VAT is added to prices of just about everything
Oo I'm in the market for a 4gb SO-DIMM stick or two. I remember getting 8gb ddr3 for under £100 last year : / lets hope it gets that cheap again...
I'm happy enough. I picked up a 2x2GB DDR3 1333 Kingston kit from CCL for £45 last week. Going in meh new university PC.
I think I am going to dump my ripjaws as they are a bit too tall. Maybe snag 8gb of "normal" sized ram so it doesn't touch my megahalems. I will keep my eyes peeled for bargains.
I've seen some lovely ddr2 @ 1200mhz 5,5,5,18 1.8v which I'm thinking of upgrading to, I blew half of my system upgrade saved money on an extra 5870, do I regret it? absolutely not , so I'll hold out a bit longer, thanks for the heads up Bindi .
What's the likelihood of me finding a 2x2GB DDR2 PC-6400 CL-5 kit at 1.8v fairly cheaply soon? See, it's my birthday at the start of October, and I'm gonna drop a Phenom II and some more RAM into this machine, and it would be nice to go up to 6GB if possible. Got a GTX460 planning its way into this box too, which should stop this machine being quite so oldtastic and fail.
AM2+ I bought this as a stopgap when my old AM2 died. At the time, Scan had it on clearance for about £65, so I thought it was a bargain, especially since I could drop in a Phenom II later on for more life if needed. The PCI / PCI-E slots are bright yellow, and glow in the presence of UV. And it has an LED POST code display that I have no idea how to read. I know it gets stuck at C1 when the memory installed isn't working, and it says FF when everything is fine. >.>
Yea pretty much C1/C3 (same thing) and FF are the only ones you've got to worry about I don't know about DDR2 to be honest, because the demand for DDR3 will only increase so prices will go down with volume. DDR2 demand won't rise it'll only at best plateau out so prices probably won't drop much imo.
Well i don't know... i've seen someone rip memory chips off his corsair dominator that way. Are you saying that the ripjaws are "shittier" than that and thus the heatsink won't take half the stick with it?
Just be careful - my point is that the thin aluminium bends easily unlike the Dominators so its easy to pry it off IC at a time. Use a thin piece of plastic to gently remove the sticky adhesive from the IC top. If you're going to buy new ones anyway think of it as a "well if this doesn't work it doesn't matter".
I'll keep trawling. If anyone has a kit like I mentioned (2x2GB DDR2 800mhz CL5 @1.8v) going cheap, I can haz? :3
Still falling DDR3 :=) Corsair 1600mhz 6gb DDR3 has come down again today latest trade price is close to £75 + VAT Thats down £10 + VAT so far this week.
Dominators have the heatsink going through the chip so the cooling actually cools the chip. Everything else is just stuck on to the outside of the chip
I needed RAM and DDR2 hasn't really fallen in the last few weeks so I placed my order today: Kingston HyperX 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2/2G 5-5-5-15, 2.3v. It was $43. Will join the current 2x2GB G.SKILL kit in my desktop to make 6GB. Side question (if anyone's available and willing to answer): Timing is the same, Latency is the same, but the G.SKILL sticks pull 2.1v and the Kingston stick pulls 2.3v. Will I need to tweak anything or will BIOS automatically pull the Kingston down to 2.1v?
