Samsung Kills Production of Famed B-die DDR4 Memory in Favor or Higher Densities

[Deleted member 158293]

Is there really a difference between CAS14 and CAS16? Why I ask is that you can get DDR4-3200 RAM at a pretty decent price these days but they're all CAS16 modules, if you want CAS14 modules be prepared to pay through the nose for it. So I figure that Samsung is discontinuing the B-Die modules because most people aren't willing to pay the CAS14 price premium when you can get CAS16 stuff all day long at half the cost.

A lot of people won't notice a timing difference in general use, doesn't mean there isn't one. People who would benefit from b-die tight timings might know their needs a little more. It's like any choice of components.

A bit like nand memory; SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC. For the average user QLC is now probably good enough, but there are other good reasons to use the more expensive and robust types of nand.

 

[Gasaraki]

In US maybe but in EU they are not cheap at all !

If you want the best, you have to willing to pay for it. If the extra tight timings are useless to you, then buy the cheap stuff. The got the TridentX 3400 14-14-14-32 timing B-dies and you'll never see my complaining about how much I paid for that. Most people would be fine with 3200 16-18-18-38 memory.

 

[RH92]

If you want the best, you have to willing to pay for it. If the extra tight timings are useless to you, then buy the cheap stuff. The got the TridentX 3400 14-14-14-32 timing B-dies and you'll never see my complaining about how much I paid for that. Most people would be fine with 3200 16-18-18-38 memory.

Sure but what is the relation with my post ??? I was replying to dj-electric who was saying that you can find cheap b-die kits ( wich is true for the US but not EU ) .........

 

[Manu_PT]

Who said it was meant to be impressive, everyone knows your agenda, go beat your drum somewhere else.

He made it seem like having hynix at 3466 cl 16 was a big deal. B dies reach way better performance.

If anything, this can affect potential zen 2 max performance.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Is there really a difference between CAS14 and CAS16? Why I ask is that you can get DDR4-3200 RAM at a pretty decent price these days but they're all CAS16 modules, if you want CAS14 modules be prepared to pay through the nose for it. So I figure that Samsung is discontinuing the B-Die modules because most people aren't willing to pay the CAS14 price premium when you can get CAS16 stuff all day long at half the cost.

Depends on your needs. If you're pushing high frame rates you'll occasionally run into a game that's sensitive enough to memory speed to get a large performance gain, maybe 20+fps in a F1 title, BUT for most games at 60 fps we're talking a difference of 0.1-0.5 fps. Its similar with productivity apps, if you have a long job and the app is sensitive you could see a notable time reduction gain but again these are very specific situations.

 

[Totally]

When samsung will kill overpriced ddr4?

Pretty sure this move is a defib to the chest in the ER for high prices that were supposedly hemmoraghing. Prices were down for like a couple weeks.