When will 8GB DDR3 2800 Kits start showing up?

[Don Karnage]

Ivy Bridge is less then a month away with Z77 supporting DDR3 2800. When will we start seeing some kits being available?

 

[FAUguy]

I was wondering this as well. My ASRock Z68 board supports up to 2133MHz, so that's what I went with (16GB). The fastest I see listed on NewEgg is 2400. My guess is once the Z77 and IB comes out, we'll see faster speeds, but will probably have looser timings, like 12 or 14.

 

[mikeymikec]

I thought the last Anandtech review on SB and faster memory basically said "don't bother with faster memory"...?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/1

I must have a look around to see whether AMD AM3 /+ architectures benefit much from faster memory.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

some people just like pushing the bleeding edge, and maybe Ivy will start to change some things in that regard, but yeah, for the vast vast vast majority the extra bandwidth will do jack and squat

I kind of wish it wasn't true as it would be an area of potential major improvement for me if it could increase performance, but alas I've stuck with 1600 because I can't justify spending anymore if real world performance scaling hardly budges any further up

 

[greenhawk]

I was generally of the opinion that it is a waste of money (performance gain vs ram price increase), but then I thought, if I am going to do the next upgrade well, I want every 0.1% where I can get it.

So on looking into it, I once again gave up on the fast ram as most of it has larger timings, so the overall time (speed times clock cycles) remained basically the same. Really not worth it.

 

[FAUguy]

Still haven't seen any 2800MHz kits, but here's a 2666 16GB kit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA0ST09D6477

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Honestly, there is no need for 8GB RAM to be that fast

It is better to go 16GB (future proof, multitask etc) first and then think of higher speeds within 16GB.

1866 or even 2133 is the max they should make for 8GB