[Chuchnit]

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.

[punx223]

yes the ram market is stupid expensive, and the only modules that clock well at good timings cost more for one stick than a full kit of another

But I did save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO



**DISCLAIMER** I did not and have not purchased auto insurance through GEICO, I in no way can claim weather or not you will save money on auto insurance, and I would not believe that australian batard of a gecko either.... i think they pay him to say it.

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by punx223

yes the ram market is stupid expensive, and the only modules that clock well at good timings cost more for one stick than a full kit of another

But I did save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO



**DISCLAIMER** I did not and have not purchased auto insurance through GEICO, I in no way can claim weather or not you will save money on auto insurance, and I would not believe that australian batard of a gecko either.... i think they pay him to say it.

You crack me up man. I remember when DDR2 D9's were "obsolete" you managed to get lucky with a kick ass set of Patriot with D9 that just clocked to retarded speeds. That doesn't happen any more.

[ocgmj]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

I am just a total sour puss

[punx223]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

You crack me up man. I remember when DDR2 D9's were "obsolete" you managed to get lucky with a kick ass set of Patriot with D9 that just clocked to retarded speeds. That doesn't happen any more.

i still have 2 sets of those somewhere....

[Gutterz]

Geico has always quoted me higher than anyone else....

An yes the Ram market blows, Ive been using Supertalent for a while their prices are fair an always clocked better than say xms2's an 3's

[Hondacity]

PSC(Powerchip SemiConductors) ..... expects 30-40% growth ddr 3rd/4thQ of 09 ======true most of the ddr3 now is PSC cheapt stuff read http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091127PD204.html

Samsung ....Just got their ddr3 40nm tech upto speed...released april 14, 2010. http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...o?news_id=1144
already released at their website....its latency is awful. do not buy.

Elpida......they're growing http://www.elpida.com/en/news/2009/12-22.html expensive though...
more stuff http://www.elpida.com/en/news/2009/11-19m.html

Hynix 40nm DDr3 also available..dunno who uses them http://www.hynix.com/gl/pr_room/news...o=02&m=01&s=01

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Hondacity

PSC(Powerchip SemiConductors) ..... expects 30-40% growth ddr 3rd/4thQ of 09 ======true most of the ddr3 now is PSC cheapt stuff read http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091127PD204.html

Samsung ....Just got their ddr3 40nm tech upto speed...released april 14, 2010. http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...o?news_id=1144
already released at their website....its latency is awful. do not buy.

Elpida......they're growing http://www.elpida.com/en/news/2009/12-22.html expensive though...
more stuff http://www.elpida.com/en/news/2009/11-19m.html

Hynix 40nm DDr3 also available..dunno who uses them http://www.hynix.com/gl/pr_room/news...o=02&m=01&s=01

You trying to say it gonna get better soon or suck for a long time? Where is micron with their new variant of D9 that kicks ass?

[punx223]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

You trying to say it gonna get better soon or suck for a long time? Where is micron with their new variant of D9 that kicks ass?

i think Elpida kinda trounced micron on this one, and Micron is trying to gain foothold at this point.

[Hondacity]

i forgot to add micron

they'll be ramping up 2nd quarter this year.....42nm tech

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/...echnology.html