Inexpensive DDR3. And the latencies? Posted on 20/05/2008 at 20:04 by Nicolas
1 GB modules of DDR3-1333/PC3-10666 are starting to be found for around 40€ taxes included in France. This is quite good news because up until now DDR3 has been expensive and therefore of little interest compared to DDR2 which is often half the price of its bigger sibling.
However, for 40€ we currently find at best OCZ3V13331G modules with latencies of 9-9-9-27. This is quite a bit because 11 months ago OCZ launched a Platinum Dual Channel kit certified to hold latencies of 7-7-7-20 in DDR3-1333. For comparison, we find DDR2-800/PC2-6400 with timings of 4-4-4-12 for the same price. In short, DDR3 is finally becoming affordable, but we should be conscious of what we are buying.
1 GB modules of DDR3-1333/PC3-10666 are starting to be found for around 40€ taxes included in France. This is quite good news because up until now DDR3 has been expensive and therefore of little interest compared to DDR2 which is often half the price of its bigger sibling.