2 x 2 Gig Sticks, Mushkin PC8500 - The Real Deal.

[Amey]

Any idea what chips are used ?

[eXceeded]

Any idea when we will see 4GB memory kits here in UK? Atm the only kit I can find is a Kingston 2 x 2GB kit for £352, which is still on preorder:S... so hoping that there are other choices

[Slay0r]

Very nice results, Kunaak

thanks for sharing

[gundamit]

Any idea what chips are used ?

Very nice results, I'm interested in the chips they use.

I'm inclined to let Mushkin keep their competitive advantage/IC secrets and not push or prod for answers. They'll come soon enough. No doubt they spent a lot of time trying to get the jump on others working on 2x2gb sets for the enthusiast market, so hopefully they're are rewarded with some nice sales numbers by early adopters.

Looks like the predictions of incremental gains in 2x2gb performance (modeled after the 2x1gb history) have been proven wrong. I think its safe to say Mushkin has blown away expectations with the release of these sticks. K ... that's enough how about a coupon for XS members Duonger?.

[Kunaak]

... that's enough how about a coupon for XS members Duonger?.

here you go.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=116863

been there for about 6 months.

[Duonger]

I'm inclined to let Mushkin keep their competitive advantage/IC secrets and not push or prod for answers. They'll come soon enough. No doubt they spent a lot of time trying to get the jump on others working on 2x2gb sets for the enthusiast market, so hopefully they're are rewarded with some nice sales numbers by early adopters.

Looks like the predictions of incremental gains in 2x2gb performance (modeled after the 2x1gb history) have been proven wrong. I think its safe to say Mushkin has blown away expectations with the release of these sticks. K ... that's enough how about a coupon for XS members Duonger?.

LOL ROFL

yes it will come out. our esteem competitors already bought modules from our website and it is prob already in their labs....so soon you will see modules from them. LOL...

Coupon codes

5% off=ASSIST-CD

10$ off = ASSIST-CRIS

[S1mon-]

Are these real coupon codes lol I just tried them for fun and they don't seem to work :P

[mat128]

LOL ROFL

yes it will come out. our esteem competitors already bought modules from our website and it is prob already in their labs....so soon you will see modules from them. LOL...

Coupon codes

5% off=ASSIST-CD

10$ off = ASSIST-CRIS

Codes definitively work -- gave 5% off the 2gb kit, bringing it to about 490 vs 545 ** I think there might be a minimum purchase value tho.

EDIT: Just tested and the ASSIST-CRIS code isn't exactly 10$... it depends on the item value.
xtremesystems.com code works, and seems to give the most discount. ASSIST-CD is exactly the same as "xtremesystems.com" from what I can see.

[Kunaak]

http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/...ail.asp?id=556

all the codes work just fine for me.

the XS code brings you down to $490 total.
$55 off the web price.

if thats not hooking you guys up, I dont know what is.

[EMan]

$420 (w/ discount) for the 800Mhz kit seems like a very good price for 2x2GB CAS4. This might be ideal for the new Vista 64 E6600 gaming system I'm building (Asus Commando mobo). I was planning on getting 2x1gb Buffalo Firestix to hold me over until 2x2gb kits improved... I guess they have!

[RealTelstar]

The codes works fine

[ozzimark]

yes it will come out. our esteem competitors already bought modules from our website and it is prob already in their labs....so soon you will see modules from them. LOL...

nothing wrong with a bit of competition
may i venture a guess? D9HNL

[Duonger]

nothing wrong with a bit of competition
may i venture a guess? D9HNL

i dont even know. but personally im annoyed cuz this is the 4th time these 3 companies have bought our parts and then released a similar item.

[ozzimark]

i dont even know. but personally im annoyed cuz this is the 4th time these 3 companies have bought our parts and then released a similar item.

then overlabel the chips with "LOL"

[-n7-]

i dont even know. but personally im annoyed cuz this is the 4th time these 3 companies have bought our parts and then released a similar item.

Care to tell us which companies?

I'd like to see the companies who are too lame to find good ICs on their own.
I'm sure we already know two of them though...

[jinzhanhua]

Damn, price increase $13.

[Duonger]

hmmmm well.. several of our competitors now know what chips we are using and have contacted our supplier and thus pushed the prices of the chips up..... sorry we tried to keep it low key for as long as we could.

[Kunaak]

its only a matter of time before all the copycats have a version out now.
seems unavoidable really.
you guys do the work to find good chips.
someone comes along and copies it so they dont have to do anything.

[jinzhanhua]

hmmmm well.. several of our competitors now know what chips we are using and have contacted our supplier and thus pushed the prices of the chips up..... sorry we tried to keep it low key for as long as we could.

OMG, price is $654 now

[Duonger]

OMG, price is $654 now

wow.. .... didntk now it would go up again.. i know someone (an individual) bought 125kits from us today and a reseller placed a 200kits order. and lead time for more chips is over 1 week cuz A and B company bought chips today as well.

[jinzhanhua]

wow.. .... didntk now it would go up again.. i know someone (an individual) bought 125kits from us today and a reseller placed a 200kits order. and lead time for more chips is over 1 week cuz A and B company bought chips today as well.

Too bad news for me!
I am building new pc, motherboard ordered, ASUS ROG 680I.
I want to place mushkin memory order after motherboard arrive.
But the price of memory...

[mezcal]

$654?? Yeah, make it hurt baby!
Of course the value is realized over the longer term.
My nf7/xp-m box is still running mushkin level II bh5 sticks and they are STILL brutal to this day.
I honestly can't recall what I paid for them at the time (but I'm thinking it was a lot ...)

[Speederlander]

Soon as they come back down I'm selling my 4 gig of Mushkin and grabbing 8 gig.

[Duonger]

let me call the big boss tomorrow and ask him if there is anything that can be done. give me a day.

[EMan]

What applications are people seeing real performance gains with 4Gb?

Or more to the point, what applications will benefit from more than 4GB?

The principal advantage of 2x2GB kits (so far) is that you're not using all 4 slots. I don't see a cost or performance advantage, at least not yet. These kits are somewhat expensive (on a per-MB basis). They are fast, but it's been documented that 4x1GB performance is at least as good. Besides DDR3 is around the corner, so do I want to invest the potential capacity for 8GB of DDR2?

Am I missing something?