DDR3-1,800 and DDR3-2,000
DDR3-1,800 (PC3-14,400)
2GB kits (2x 1GB)
Crucial
Ballistix DDR3 PC3-14400
- 8-8-8-24 latencies - Ballistix heatspreaders - EPP - 1.9V
- £79.34
@ Crucial.com/uk (£ 93.14 - Jan '09,
£119.91 - Nov '08, £90.34 - Sep '08)
3GB kits (3x 1GB)
Corsair DOMINATOR PC3-14,900 TR3X3G1866C9DF - 9-9-9-24 latencies - DOMINATOR heatspreaders - XMP - 1.65V - £152.94 @ Scan.co.uk
4GB kits (2x
2GB)
OCZ
Platinum PC3-14,400
- 8-8-8-27 latencies - XTC heatspreaders - 1.9V
- £167.67
@ memoryc.com (£173.36 - Jan '09, £230.39
- Nov '08, £186.34 - Sep '08 )
6GB kits (3x 2GB)
OCZ Platinum PC3-14,400 - 9-9-9-28 latencies - XTC heatspreaders - 1.65V - £179.99 @ ebuyer.co.uk (n/a)
DDR3-1,800+, too, continues to drop in price, but you'll be
paying a tasty £180 for a 6GB kit.
DDR3-2,000 (PC3-16,000)
DDR3-2,000 remains the domaina of the enthusiast that, well, isn't motivated by value for money. We've seen a few kits validated for Core i7, including Corsair's DOMINATOR GT.
2GB kits (2x 1GB)
OCZ
Platinum PC3-16,000 - 9-9-9-28 latencies - 1.8V - EPP2.0 -
XTC
heatspreaders - £98.33
@ memoryc.com (£101.60 - Jan '09, £88.92
-
Nov '08, £122.96 - Sep '08)
3GB kits (3x 1GB)
G.Skill PI Black PC3-16,000 - 9-9-9-24 latencies - PI heatspreaders - 1.65V - £185.27 @ memoryc.com (n/a)
4GB kits (2x
2GB)
OCZ
Platinum PC3-16,000 - 9-9-9-28 latencies - 1.8V - XTC
heatspreaders -
EPP2.0 - £154.73
@ memoryc.com (£176.41 - Jan '09, £241.51
- Nov '08, £224.18 - Sep '08)
6GB kits (3x 2GB)
Corsair DOMINATOR PC3-16,000 TR3X6G2000C7GTF - 7-8-7-20 latencies - DOMINATOR heatspreaders - XMP - 1.65V - $579.99 @ Corsair Direct
Kingston KHX16000D3ULT1K3/6GX PC3-16,000 - 8-8-8-24 latencies - Ultra heatspreaders - XMP - 1.65V - £343.05 @ More Computers
Again, these modules are hard to recommend to anyone other than a very select niche of users who value - or not, as the case may be - the last ounce of performance.
Stock of these modules is extremely limited, sensible given the price.
Summary
Pricing has dropped markedly on pretty much all DDR3 memory. You can now pick up a 6GB DDR3-1,333 kit for around £80, making AM3 and Core i7 rather more attractive than they would have been if released in September 2008.The price-drops are largest for the volume-selling parts, of course, but even enthusiast-class memory - DDR3-1,600+ - isn't prohibitively expensive.
However, a lack of observed performance improvement when moving from DDR3-1,066 CL7 to DDR3-2,000 CL7 means that buying ultra-expensive DDR3 is, for most, marginally pointless.
