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Crucial DDR3-1333 CAS 9
Crucial packs its CT3KIT25664BA1339 DDR3-1333 triple-channel kit in three individual boxes, with a sleeve to keep them together. Each box contains a single CT25664BA1339 module, and future Core i5 users will be pleased to note a dual-channel package of the same modules is already available as part number CT2KIT25664BA1339.
Rated at DDR3-1333 CAS 9, Crucial’s most impressive specification is its industry-standard 1.50 V operating voltage. Though CPU-Z’s chart isn’t wide enough to contain all of these module’s SPD values, our motherboard automatically set these to CAS 9-9-9-24.
More impressive than specifications is the CT3KIT25664BA1339 6 GB kit’s $98 Web price.
OCZ Intel Extreme Series DDR3-1333 CAS 7
We asked every company to send the one product it believed would be best-able to win today’s value comparison, and OCZ decided to let us chose by sending its four lowest-priced premium memory products. With a Web price of only $80 at test (and press) time, its part number OCZ3X1333LV6GK Intel i7 Triple Channel PC3-10666 (DDR3-1333) looked like a sure bet for value leadership.
Rated at both CAS 8 and CAS 7 DDR3-1333 timings, our motherboard reported XMP values of 8-9-9-21 and 7-8-8-21, rather than the stated 8-8-8-20 and 7-7-7-20 values assigned by the manufacturer. This is an issue we've seen with several XMP-capable motherboards, and that’s one reason why we usually recommend configuring overclock-rated memory manually.
The only store to sell part number OCZ3X1333LV6GK for $80, ZipZoomFly no longer has these in stock. Because we’re not certain what the price will be when these are finally restocked, we used the next-lowest Web price of $100 in our value analysis.
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Great review, this helped me determine with determining about DDR3 6GB kits. Since I'm in the middle of building my core i7 rig. thx!
btw, isn't there any cheaper ram on the way as well?
These were all available for under $90 at the July 3 price deadline. Amazing what's happened since, eh?
rather silly not to include any gskill ram
Is 1.65v really needed?
I recently built an i7 mashine with 2x6gb ocz gold modules.
Instead of running them at their rated 1600mhz @ 1.65v I decided to go for 1333 @ 7-7-6-17 - and that @ stock 1.5v ; I don't really get the point of feeding them more juice just to get timings a tad lower, or frequency a tad up.
With the minimal performance gains from high-end RAM, glad to see an evaluation of the "cheap" stuff. Good work.
I wish these came in 2 or 4 packs also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OCZ DDR3 3x 2 GB kits, the Gold and the Plat at 1333 and 1600, dropped below 100 bucks at NewEgg and ZipZoomFly three months ago. They've been $89 - 99 PLUS a 20 rebate with FREE shipping there on and off since April.
The statement at the heading is inaccurate.
what about kingston ram?
I picked up some 12gb ocz platinum 1333 kits for $135, and 140 off of amazon. Found them using bing.com/cashback.
do not use ocz's xmp set the memory yourself. On my memory the 1600mhz with xmp i tried the xmp 1600 setting and it cooked my i7 cpu. After the shitty rma process i installed the memory and set all the timings myself and found out that the xmp profile set the qpi voltage to 1.4 when it runs fine on 1.105 (i think) the default qpi voltage anyways i learnt my lesson ocz might have cheap memory but dont use the xmp.
Maybe you live in an area where usual temps are 10-30* celsius, but don't forget that there are people who live in areas where at summer things can get really hot so I don't understand why not add at least a warning saying that overclocking this ram is really not safe unless you know what you're doing.
I know lots of people who read toms hardware occasionally and don't know a thing about computers - have cramped cases without proper ventilation and low-end ram without heatspreaders. Temps around here in July-August are around 40*C. Do you think it's smart if they were to overclock their ram? Because that's actually what you imply..
rather silly not to include any gskill ram
Budget RAM XD
Budget RAM XD
I got my 6 GB 1600 DDR3 GSkill kit for $95 with free shipping back in March. Run's rock solid at 8,8,8,21 on 1t timings.
Maybe you live in an area where usual temps are 10-30* celsius, but don't forget that there are people who live in areas where at summer things can get really hot so I don't understand why not add at least a warning saying that overclocking this ram is really not safe unless you know what you're doing.I know lots of people who read toms hardware occasionally and don't know a thing about computers
- have cramped cases without proper ventilation and low-end ram without heatspreaders. Temps around here in July-August are around 40*C. Do you think it's smart if they were to overclock their ram? Because that's actually what you imply..
Where do you live that 40C is the norm in summertime? I live in Atlanta and 35 is average. Even South Florida doesn't really get much hotter.
I tried this memory.... it SUCKS! This memory caused my computer to crash every single time I tied to run prime95!
I wish these came in 2 or 4 packs also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Half of them do, read the descriptions.
OCZ DDR3 3x 2 GB kits, the Gold and the Plat at 1333 and 1600, dropped below 100 bucks at NewEgg and ZipZoomFly three months ago. They've been $89 - 99 PLUS a 20 rebate with FREE shipping there on and off since April.The statement at the heading is inaccurate.
The Intel Extreme Edition was cheapest on July 3 when testing began, and the prices were updated the day before the article was published. No Gold or Platinum available for under $99 on August 5, since venders listing lower prices were out of stock.
what about kingston ram?
Everyone was invited, some companies chose not to participate. In particular, some companies don't like overclocking articles that promote their cheaper modules at the expense of some high-end product sales.
I tried this memory.... it SUCKS! This memory caused my computer to crash every single time I tied to run prime95!
Wow, you tried all of them? That's really sad.
Looking forward to likely a 8GB 1600 set myself.
Ramdisk FTW!
For my purposes, the 1600 is still over. With the i7/Core2, we have proven thus anything over 1066 useless in most games already. It may be different with the i5, but I doubt it. I just want cheap quantity at the moment.
Budget RAM XD
I was running the ram at it's rated speed it was not an overclock I bough the 1600mhz kit that's shouldn't be hard to understand also everyone in the 2009 will have a/c in their house or apartment so it's not like I'm running my computer on some Mexican beach. Ocz XMP profiles are not clocked properly on the 1600 kit because it gives the qpi to much voltage causing the CPU to overheat. CPU is running stock clocks stock heatsinks. Before you run your mouth use your brain thanks. PS the memory works great you just have to set the clocks yourself
That was for doron btw clicked the wrong post by mistake