Thursday, March 20th 2008
G.Skill Starts Offering 8GB and 16GB DDR2-800 Memory Kits
High-end memory manufacturer G.Skill has begun offering 4x 4GB (16GB) as well as 2x 4GB (8GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 kits for all proffesional users working with memory-hungry applications. G.Skil said that the memories are guaranteed to work on motherboards based on Intel P35, X38 and X48 chipsets and with the majority of AMD chipsets for the AM2 platform (AMD 790FX, 780G, 690G, nForce 590, 570). But before buying these kits, please refer to your motherboard manual and check if it supports that amount of memory. For example NVIDIA's nForce 680i and 780i chipsets support up to 8 GB of memory. The kits are tested to work at DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) speeds with CL5-5-5-15 timings and 1.8V.
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G.Skill
35 Comments on G.Skill Starts Offering 8GB and 16GB DDR2-800 Memory Kits
A man can dream, can't he? :roll:
thats insane! if they were D9's could you imagine?
16gb should be enough to turn off my pagefile right?
lol...
edit: i take that back, they have more listed since i looked :www.micron.com/products/dram/ddr2/partlist
anyone have a price to this ... cookie
dont think these are targeted towards gamers/avg users
:toast:
Just need nVidia and Intel to get their chipsets up to 16GB like AMD (when talking 1P chipsets).
Home Basic is 8GB and Home Premium is 16GB.
great, I've been suffering on 8gb of RAM for ages and it's about time 16gb was made available in DDR2.. well done g.skill. hopefully it will be affordable. Whats not addressed in what I would generously describe as "articles" on the many tech websites is WHAT motherboards actually support 16gb of DDR2 RAM? anyone know of a suitable board?
what we need is a list - can we prepare a list?
most of them lamely 'parrot' the press release.
cheers
EDIT: even intel's skulltrail (x48 chipset) only supports 8GB's :wtf: