robert3892Any word yet on pricing?

robert3892Any word yet on pricing?

XL-R8RSomewhere around an index finger or your left testicle?


If I see things correctly. 16GB of basic Crucial 2133mhz sticks (no heatspreader, just 'plain') will run you about £170, €215 or $280 respectively.

If you want a 'fancy' kit, say 16GB of Crucial Ballistix @ 3000MHz, youll be paying around £330, €415 or $550.


3000MHz is currently the fastest sticks for sale over at OCUK... I'll assume quicker stuff will be dropping post-releases of the eX99 platform for a sum somewhere around two testicles plus an eyeball.

Keep your eyes open...... while you still have both. :toast:

buggalugsThey are on pre order on a few sites, average is about almost double the price of highend DDDR3 (2133Mhz+) but that could just be pre-order prices. Yikes!!

Tatty_OneI would sell my wife and 2 daughters for a 16GB kit of 3200mhz DDR4, unfortunatly I would barely get enough for the heatspredders let alone the actual memory :(

Petey PlaneToo bad (because heat spreaders on sub 1.5 volt memory are useless and just used to raise perceived value and therefore price)

Tatty_OneYup, you have summed their value up very well (wife and children, not heatspredders :)) However on a more serious note, you forget that some enthusiasts overclock their memory in part by increasing voltage and therefore low voltage memory may well have a need for them.

kenkickrSay that to the Samsung Evo sticks

Tatty_OneRight, but I didn't say "all" :), take mine for example, they have heatspreaders and rated at 1.5V at 2133mhz CL11 they are barely warm to the touch, at 1.6V CL9 they are hot! I agree that heatspredders are redundant on low voltage memory, all my point was is that for those that overclock/overvolt they may not be a redundant feature, I am sure that even on the Sammy Evo's if you crank up the volts significantly they will get hot.

cadavecaHeatspreaders are used to ensure that all ICs of the DIMM are roughly the same temp, so that they aren't skewed in refresh or similar due to heat concentrated in one spot. Some ICs do run quite hot, too, so for some sticks, a heatspreader is 100% required. Otherwise, the comment that they aren't needed sounds, to me, like someone saying, "My car is blue, so all cars are blue!!!". FFS, it doesn't work that way.

Petey PlaneI agree that heat spreaders used to maintain consistent temps across all the chips may be needed, as a lot of server error corrected modules use simple heat spreaders. I should have differentiated between spreaders and heat sinks. As far is the big heat sinks, in the style of G. Skill and Corsair, they are pretty useless on modern sub 1.5v RAM, outside of extreme overclocking (where you'd probably be using LN2 anyway) and just inhibit airflow. I remember a test from a few years ago of older Corsair 1.5v Dominator sticks that had lower temps with the heat sinks removed. Nothing wrong with buying RAM that matches your MoBo and such, but the elaborate heat sinks on modern RAM should be recognized for what they are, marketing gimmicks.

Petey PlanePeople worry so much about case airflow, but then install what are essentially walls directly in front of the CPU power circuitry in with huge Corsair Dominator DIMMS. Seems a little counter-intuitive.

Petey PlanePeople worry so much about case airflow, but then install what are essentially walls directly in front of the CPU power circuitry in with huge Corsair Dominator DIMMS. Seems a little counter-intuitive.

LAN_deRf_HAI had hoped with DDR4 they'd make them a smaller dimension, or at least make low profile sticks the default size.