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Thread: Trying to choose DDR-III Memory Modules for 32 GB RAM (4 * 8 GB)

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    The shop that I was going to purchase the GSkill Snipers from, said their provider got out of stock. This means that I have at least this weekend to figure out WHAT I am going to buy. After the DRAM price shakeup one month ago, high density modules here are VERY scarse and most shops I called are either out of stock or raised substantially the price. This means that I'm more tempted to import them.

    I sended an E-Mail to GSkill asking for info regarding to what ICs they use in a few parts that I could purchase locally. As expected, they told me that they can't give that information. This means that I have absolutely NO idea about what ICs are in the GSkill modules I could purchase here. Actually, for most parts it is like that, so unless someone removed the Heatspreader and post the ICs in Internet (Like this Thread here, this one on OCaholic, this on Corsair's Forums, and this database on i4memory), I can't know beforehand, unless I'm purchasing a tried-and-true module where that info is available.


    Quote Originally Posted by The Stilt View Post
    Stay away from any modules based on Micron ICs (Crucial is Micron).
    Their ICs do no work properly on any AMD IMC since 12h.

    For 15h parts (Kaveri, Richland, Trinity, Vishera, Zambezi) you want either Hynix or Samsung based modules.
    KHX16LC9K2/16X for example is always based on 1.35V Hynix MFR variant.
    I have been looking around for Hynix MFR and I didn't really found more than a few modules with it. And 32 GB are at around 350-400 U$D price range, quite out of range of my budget. Any specific model recommendation? It is hard to get specific info on a module's ICs, so if someone knows good places to get info about that it would greatly help.
    Also, it doesn't have to be specifically for Richland, as Haswell is also in consideration. Depending on price, chances are that I pick Haswell due to better CPU performance, altough the last word is with what platform I'm getting better IOMMU virtualization support.


    BTW, I was just checking that in the list I made, I can get the GSkill TridentX F3-2400C10D-16GTX, which uses the Samsung K4B4G0846B IC. They are out of my budget, but I can get them locally and could force it if REALLY needed.
    I suppose that what could make me happy the most are good-IC, value series, 1.35V modules with higher-than-1600 MHz capabilities in case I have to put them in a Richland. Sounds hard, huh?
    Last edited by zir_blazer; 05-11-2013 at 02:39 PM.

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