Wheres the 3200ddr CL3 Deals??

[sterling]

HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: sterling
HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

why exactly do u want CL3?

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: sterling
HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

why exactly do u want CL3?

Don't you know? The higher the number the better! Just like teh megahurtssss!@

 

[Soulkeeper]

heh bla

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: sterling
HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

why exactly do u want CL3?

If he's using an A64 system then the cas setting is largely inconsequential.

 

[sterling]

HI

Im just building a computer for my office with an Intel 865perlk motherboard. Intel
recommends only using CL3 for stability.

 

[Abzstrak]

saw some 256MB Pc3200 CL3 crucial sticks at axion (www.axiontech.com) for $46 each.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: sterling
HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

why exactly do u want CL3?

If he's using an A64 system then the cas setting is largely inconsequential.

Does this mean that CL3 ram works in AMD64 with a very similar performance to CL2.5?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Does this mean that CL3 ram works in AMD64 with a very similar performance to CL2.5?

Yep, Tom's and Ace's show the difference is minimal. I'm certain there are some tasks that can benefit more from tighter timings than what's been explored in those tests but I agree with Ace's that better overclockability is the real feature faster timing ram usually brings to the table.

 

[cm123]

why exactly do u want CL3?[/quote]If he's using an A64 system then the cas setting is largely inconsequential.[/quote]

Does this mean that CL3 ram works in AMD64 with a very similar performance to CL2.5?[/quote]

yes... GamePC did a review on CL compares called Debunking DDR-400 Myths : Common Questions Answered


we're taking about 1-2% performance difference at the most, from the lowest to the highest memory timings.
As many believe that the lowest CAS latency will mean the best performance, memory manufacturers have been constantly trying to one-up each other by offering lower latencies compared to the competition

From the fastest to slowest memory timings, our SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth benchmark only varied 0.7%. From what we can tell, this could just as easily be within Sandra's range of variance and for all reasonable purposes; there is no real difference to be seen.



As you can likely see, we've been rather fed up with much of the disinformation running rampant around the net about DDR memory. We wanted to test for ourselves and prove our points with substantial facts. Hopefully we've done that today. If you don?t overclock, don?t bother with the more expensive ?high-performance? DDR. You?ll never see any real performance gains. If you do overclock, check out the Kingston or Corsair modules and weigh the pros and cons carefully.


Whole review here...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanks for posting another source cm123 :beer: I think it should be mentioned that the P4 platform benefits the most from faster timings as oldfart, Duvie, Thugsrook, and others have shown with their testing, so P4 owners are still wise to get the tightest stuff they can find.

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: sterling
HI All

Whew!! The damn Memory suppliers are really kickin up 3200ddr prices. Seems like the best deal is the Dual Ram special from kingston for 69.99 after rebate. I dont want to deal with rebates unless its a bigtime deal. All Im looking for is a good brand of memory i can run in dual channel 256mb per channel CL3. Any Ideas?

why exactly do u want CL3?

because it is cheaper

 

[sterling]

LETS GET BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION!!!

Where is the gooood deals on 3200ddr memory???

Somebody mention crucial for 46.00 bucks for 256meg stick. This stuff was selling for 42.99 at crucial just 10 days ago. I need a deal similar to the hewlett packard promotion via crucial giving people 25.00 bucks off about 6 months ago. I got crucial 2700ddr 512 megs for 40bucks per stick.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i see a link on my left that says 25% off kingston pc3200
geez it's right in this forum is that ironic or what....
looks good to me

when i got my 3500 i used the anand offer and got i think 15% off or something
it was cool