Thursday, March 20th 2008

G.Skill Starts Offering 8GB and 16GB DDR2-800 Memory Kits

High-end memory manufacturer G.Skill has begun offering 4x 4GB (16GB) as well as 2x 4GB (8GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 kits for all proffesional users working with memory-hungry applications. G.Skil said that the memories are guaranteed to work on motherboards based on Intel P35, X38 and X48 chipsets and with the majority of AMD chipsets for the AM2 platform (AMD 790FX, 780G, 690G, nForce 590, 570). But before buying these kits, please refer to your motherboard manual and check if it supports that amount of memory. For example NVIDIA's nForce 680i and 780i chipsets support up to 8 GB of memory. The kits are tested to work at DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) speeds with CL5-5-5-15 timings and 1.8V.
Source: G.Skill
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35 Comments on G.Skill Starts Offering 8GB and 16GB DDR2-800 Memory Kits

#26
TheGuruStud
ewartgreat, I've been suffering on 8gb of RAM for ages and it's about time 16gb was made available in DDR2.. well done g.skill. hopefully it will be affordable. Whats not addressed in what I would generously describe as "articles" on the many tech websites is WHAT motherboards actually support 16gb of DDR2 RAM? anyone know of a suitable board?
what we need is a list - can we prepare a list?

most of them lamely 'parrot' the press release.

cheers
Any high end gaming board should support 16, I would imagine.
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#28
TheGuruStud
infrared^ See my post above
Well, I wasn't talking about crap intel boards. Their shitty mem controllers really dictates that :laugh: I guess I should've specified AM2 boards :cool:
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#29
infrared
Do yourself a favor and use the edit button. Don't start a fanboy flamewar.
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#30
TheGuruStud
infraredDo yourself a favor and use the edit button. Don't start a fanboy flamewar.
They suck in comparison regardless of who makes them. Blame nvidia or intel or everyone for all I care. It's a poorer design due to intel's choices on CPU arch. Don't get made at me.
And for some reason they always seem to have bugs and what not. Especially those low end ones that go into OEM crap.
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#31
Polaris573
Senior Moderator
Everyone please stay calm and on topic.
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#32
infrared
TheGuruStudI should've specified AM2 boards :cool:
Ahh, yes. Had a quick look on Gigabyte's site quick and yeah... looks like all AM2 boards support 16GB's.
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#33
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
yeah my new Gigabyte MA 790X board supports it (came in today!!!!). However, I doubt Ill be getting 16gbs soon. I reckon the price on these will go for about 350 to 400??
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#34
ewart
limited by cpu options

Unfortunately I will be limited to buying the fastest CPU's available, which at present restricts me to an Intel platform, although a list with both Intel and AMD supported boards would be worth having. I wonder if there are any Intel boards available yet? .. or when the 4gb DDR 2 modules will actually be available?

cheers
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#35
phanbuey
Nitro-Max16gb!!! Holy Ramsinks Batman!!! Now We Just Need A Os That Works!! :laugh:
ahahahahaha :toast: (most useless post ever, but i had to.)
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