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Crucial Pro DDR4-3200 UDIMM

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Crucial/Micron seem to be selling the Crucial Pro DDR4-3200 UDIMM heavily discounted (cheaper than the classic)

anyone know why?

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Locally here (UK) they sometimes seem to be the cheapest option... then Corsair... then Kingston/HyperX, then it will flip back and forth repeatedly.

Funnily enough, spec for spec Crucial is more expensive than either of the other two at one retailer (I'm sure it will vary at another).

What I find more annoying about them though is that some modules will only hit that advertised speed when XMP is enabled instead of being part of its standard JEDEC SPD profile - its very hard to find out which modules are set like that from retailers.
Shouldn't need to enable XMP to get baseline performance - sure have XMP settings for tighter memory timings or OC frequency support, but that should be it.
 
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From my understanding. Its because the timings on these tend to be loose as shit so they are cheap for that reason. RAM is ram though, if you need more for for a system where the absolute performance isnt the end all be all then the price is good.

On that note. Most places where you see them being advertised NEVER tell you the timings. Only the SPEED. Even on Crucials own website i dont think they list the timings and you have to dig through external sources to find what the timings are.

These will be roughly around CL20 from my research. A performance kit is CL15 or 16?
 
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Shrek said:
Crucial seem to be selling the Crucial Pro DDR4-3200 UDIMM heavily discounted (cheaper than the classic)

anyone know why?

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Usual supply and demand I expect, excessive stock to clear.

When I got the 64 gigs for my AMD machine, I brought a higher spec, because the lower spec'd parts were more expensive. Sometimes you get these oddities when sales numbers arent as expected.
 
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Crucial/Micron already abandoned the Ballistix line.
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