MSIRawZ
New member
Hi Guys,
This won't be targeted at most of you but for the Overclockers out there, this preview brings some good news to those people sick of what's out there on the market.
In reality, all the Mushkin, Corsair and other brands we list or can list use the same stuff at some point or another. It's not a great time at the moment for all memory vendors with the falling price of DRAM and for the consumer having to put up with poorely binned RAM, many at CL9 for 1600MHz-2133MHz. The only decent sticks out there use PSC or Elpida BBSE but even these are now hard to get hold of today or have been discontiued as the market is flooded full of cheap memory and the high binned stuff is hard to make and/or too expensive to justify producing.
PSC or Elpida BBSE is decent but nothing in comparison to what Elpida Hyper brought to the market (RIP). Finding a set of Hypers is rare and when you do its bloody expensive. It's hard to justify buying a set as the way the market is going, RAM prices are dirt cheap. You only have to look at what we sell at the miniute with 8GB 1600MHz CL9 stuff at £35. Why would you pay over £100 for a decent 4GB used kit? Plus you never know if future platforms will support Hypers and the high voltages for insane timings. Some of the Sandy Bridge motherboards don't properly support Hypers at or past 1866MHz. X79 could follow suite. AMD Bulldozer is yet to be confirmed.
Now however, there may be something on the cards. I had a dual channel kit with me last week I had given some time to play with. I can't disclose much information about who the vendor is, what new IC it is etc at the miniute due to restrictions out of my control, but I can show you a mini preview clocking it at 1600MHz before I had to give them back to the relevent vendor.
Please bare in mind this is a test sample much like ES chips/GPUs so only use this as a guide for what may be to come as the finished retail product may differ. I was adviced not to put anything more than 1.7v through them, so before you ask why didn't I put 1.8v+ for shi' n'giggles, well that's why
System:
@DDR3-1600Mhz 8-8-8-24-1t at 1.5v (STOCK)
@DDR3-1600Mhz 7-7-7-24-1t at 1.5v
@DDR3-1600Mhz 6-6-6-18-1t at 1.66v
So to sum up. Wow. We've been waiting for something to replace Hypers and I think we may have something here. Whether it'll be as good as Hypers remains to be seen in the future, but things look promising with the 1600MHz results. It's worth noting that we won't see these hit the market worldwide probably for a good 4-6 months. Bit of a wait yet, but just in time for Ivy Bridge ay?
This won't be targeted at most of you but for the Overclockers out there, this preview brings some good news to those people sick of what's out there on the market.
In reality, all the Mushkin, Corsair and other brands we list or can list use the same stuff at some point or another. It's not a great time at the moment for all memory vendors with the falling price of DRAM and for the consumer having to put up with poorely binned RAM, many at CL9 for 1600MHz-2133MHz. The only decent sticks out there use PSC or Elpida BBSE but even these are now hard to get hold of today or have been discontiued as the market is flooded full of cheap memory and the high binned stuff is hard to make and/or too expensive to justify producing.
PSC or Elpida BBSE is decent but nothing in comparison to what Elpida Hyper brought to the market (RIP). Finding a set of Hypers is rare and when you do its bloody expensive. It's hard to justify buying a set as the way the market is going, RAM prices are dirt cheap. You only have to look at what we sell at the miniute with 8GB 1600MHz CL9 stuff at £35. Why would you pay over £100 for a decent 4GB used kit? Plus you never know if future platforms will support Hypers and the high voltages for insane timings. Some of the Sandy Bridge motherboards don't properly support Hypers at or past 1866MHz. X79 could follow suite. AMD Bulldozer is yet to be confirmed.
Now however, there may be something on the cards. I had a dual channel kit with me last week I had given some time to play with. I can't disclose much information about who the vendor is, what new IC it is etc at the miniute due to restrictions out of my control, but I can show you a mini preview clocking it at 1600MHz before I had to give them back to the relevent vendor.
Please bare in mind this is a test sample much like ES chips/GPUs so only use this as a guide for what may be to come as the finished retail product may differ. I was adviced not to put anything more than 1.7v through them, so before you ask why didn't I put 1.8v+ for shi' n'giggles, well that's why
System:
- Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5.00GHz
- Prolimatech Super Mega w/ 1x 120x38mm San Ace H1011
- Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5
- 120GB Mushkin Chronos DX
- be quiet! P9 Dark Power Pro 850W
- Windows XP Pro SP3
@DDR3-1600Mhz 8-8-8-24-1t at 1.5v (STOCK)
@DDR3-1600Mhz 7-7-7-24-1t at 1.5v
@DDR3-1600Mhz 6-6-6-18-1t at 1.66v
So to sum up. Wow. We've been waiting for something to replace Hypers and I think we may have something here. Whether it'll be as good as Hypers remains to be seen in the future, but things look promising with the 1600MHz results. It's worth noting that we won't see these hit the market worldwide probably for a good 4-6 months. Bit of a wait yet, but just in time for Ivy Bridge ay?
