Why is the memory market so crappy lately? Tri-channel kits are scarce. Good ones are even worse. There is only one IC that's worth buying, but it cost waaay more than "regular" IC's. The selections out there suck, the timings suck, and the prices suck the most.
Something seems screwed up here.
I remember when I got in the overclocking game buying things like memory was fun. There was a big supply of manufacturers and kits. You could search the forums and find a relatively cheap kit with good IC's; if you order quick enough to get in on that batch. When I had the REX, drnip located some good clocking D9JNL IC's on generic crucial $25 sticks. They clocked like mad till I degraded them.
Now it seems like you got crappy (for benching) PSC, micron, BBSE IC's with all manufacturer. Plus they are still crazy expensive. The other option is well..... Corsair with their ass fisting prices for guaranteed IC's. OCZ, Kingston, and Gskill gave up on selling Elpida Hyper ram, and Mushkin is releasing very very small quanities of them when they are in stock.
Am I just a total sour puss or do you guys feel the same way about the memory market? We got new mobo's, VGA's, PSU's and at the same time less and less good memory to buy.