Lowest price ever according to the 3x Camels and over $100 cheaper than anything in Aus when you factor in shipping. To get this price, you need to check out with an Amex card. Enjoy your evening :)
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Pay in USD with a 28 degrees CC.
Then you lose the Amex 15% discount.
Duh, of course!
Load gift card balance using 28 degrees less $1 and pay last $1 with AMEX and you still get the deal. Tried it before and it works.
edit:
proof: http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/81768/34093/amex.jpg
I actually paid only $0.69 on that particular order.
If you use the method I described you should be able to get the price down to ~AUD $221
I have never been able to get XE rates ever, from any merchant/Forex as XE is always too good to be true rates.
Im just waiting for a deal on the new sky lake 6600k cpu…
It is just released…I think you gotta wait for a while to get a deal, maybe xmas…
D; I think I might pull the trigger now then. It's a real shame cause I can't buy last gen stuff now for a cheaper price. Umart cleared all their Z97 boards msy and computer alliance too…
Hate it how PC parts go up in price the older they are :(
Don't bother with the old hardware. Unless they are on fire sale, skylake + mobo will only cost marginally more for the same equivalent haswell. And the new z170 boards will usually support usb 3.1, usb C and M2 x4 slot which is pretty exciting when we have the devices that can utilise these features.
@KaTst3R: thing is… New motherboards cost a fortune for a one with the features I want. The z97 board that I liked the most was the Asrock z97 Fatal1ty Professional. It's got all the basics done well, excellent aesthetics and also a handful of goodies such as dual lan and creative soundcore3D. All for 255. For 255 you can't hope to find a z170 motherboard that even comes close to the Professional.
I fully understand where you are coming from. As a side note, the LGA1151 equivalent of the Z97 Fatality Pro is the Fatality Z170 K6+. Both look as beautiful with the black red theme. Both for OC-ing with quad SLI or 3 way Crossfire. They both cost the same on Newegg (USD $185). The only difference is the sound card and dual lan but the Z170 comes with the 2xUSB 3.1 and 2xUSB C. I personally dont hate Realtek sound, i find it good enough for me. I find that, the key difference with the mid range LGA1151 and high end "pro" mobos are the additional PCI lanes which most people wont really need unless you wanna run like 4 Titan X, 2 full speed M2 x4 SSDs + PCI-E SSD all in Raid 0, additional sound card, running LED lights, etc etc, which will be overkill for 90% of the consumers.
It is your choice, but when I was doing research for my i5 6600 (non-k) build, it find the mobo+cpu price not too far off from the haswells.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157628&cm_re=asrock_z170--13-157-628--Product
@KaTst3R:I've considered the k6 but I was gonna go for the msi z170 m5. For just 20 bucks more it offers 2 m.2 instead of just 1 and a feature I really like is the debug leds can display cpu temp when pc is running ;-) Also what do you think about the Deepcool Maelstrom 240? It's bargain at 99 and it performs about the same as the h100. As soon as you add the overclocking factor your build immediately increases like 200 bucks extra
@KaTst3R: actually you are right. I forgot to mention I picked up my 4690k for 290 new haha. I ended up selling it cause they didn't have my motherboard.
Actually, I think you made a better choice by choosing the MSI M5. I mean, ASRock is still a quality manufacturer but it is generally less preferred when compared to the other brands like Asus, Gigabyte or MSI. While I dont think it is the case, but just make sure your double m2 slots are not sharing the pci lanes. I read online that some boards may split the bandwidth when using both M2 slots together, i.e x2, x2.
As for the Deepcool 240 cooler, I cant comment as I have not used that before. But the online reviews seems to be very positive and you got a red theme going which will look very nice i believe.
It seems they're having trouble with enough production, they're out of stock or selling at full retail in the US.
32GB??? What would you use it for??!! My first computer had a whopping 16kB of RAM!
VMs, RAM disc…
What you can use this mostly for? normal laptop?
Custom built desktop with a mid to high end motherboard. The motherboard needs four DDR3 RAM slots.
Or upgrading two PCs with Core i3/i5/i7 series or DDR3 Core2 Processors to 16GB RAM each.
Be careful if you are building a new PC as some 100 series motherboards only support DDR4.
To get the rated speed you will need to adjust the RAM speed and voltage in the BIOS or an overclocking program. You will not be to do this on most big name retail PCs.
Sorry TA, why did you include the eBay 2.5% cash rewards link? This deal has nothing to do with eBay right?
Coz I'm an idiot. Thanks :)
Lol, I thought can get another 2.5% discount :)
Anyway, bought it, better exchange rate today.
1 USD = 1.4101234097 AUD
Stupid question, do I pay for GST or duties whatever it is for $600 order?
No. Only orders over $1000AU.
DDR3….
and DDR4 vastly superior by significant margin?
The cheapest DDR4 2400MHz stick I found (US$35 more) are three clocks slower. Three. That's 2.5 extra nanoseconds every read. It's 5 more nanoseconds if you’re not already reading that row. And another 2.5 nanoseconds every write. All to save 0.3V…
(on the plus side, Row Active Time [tRAS] is identical at 31 cycles).
These http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Technology-32-PC4-19200-HX424… are only us$125 more and 0.833 nanosconds slower every read, but take 7.5 nanoseconds more to tell a cell to refresh (tRAS = 40).
Won't somebody think of the latency?
Yes, I'm procrastinating.
Latency aside (coz I'm not a gamer who notices it anyway), what you say about the cheapest DDR4 being slower is always the case with next gen DDR, it takes awhile (or +$$$) to beat a performance model of the previous gen.
Funny how most people see a bigger number after DDR and assume it's automatically the superior product. A marketers dream.
This is an awesome price/deal. I'd buy it (despite not needing it lol, I don't think we'll ever see 32GB DDR3 cheaper) if it werent for the fact that these won't fit under my HSF cooler.
I think I confused you.
These are all 2400MHz kits. Latency is the only difference.
DDR4 allows for higher density, lower voltage and higher data transfer rates (that MHz/GHz number). DDR4 is not designed to be faster than DDR3 as for most users RAM speed* is not a bottleneck.
*by speed I mean data transfer rate X latencies.
Edited post… I'd bought some at a higher higher price but hadn't noticed it was DDR3…
How about warranty? Is it international warranty?
Pretty sure.
Regardless, Amazon are awesome for warranty matters. They'll send you out a new one before receiving your dead one and pay your costs getting dead one back to them. They really are the best for warranty matters.
If you're not going to be using the RAM in a quad-channel setup, any reason not to buy 2 of these http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EUPV2RQ and save ~$4?
The cost of buying 2 is unfortunately not halved, as the min spend for the Amex 15% discount is US $100…
Sorry, I meant 2 x 16GB kits, instead of 1 x 32GB kit. I definitely want 32GB lol. Then it'll meet the AMEX min spend, right?
awesome! just got this, don't think my cpu and mobo can do quad channel anyway with this ram
Hi,
DAK how long it would take for the RAM to arrive and if this is the cheapest yet?
Cheers
Got one $226.33 :)
By looking at the Amazon's conversion rate and compare it with XE, Amazon is making approx $0.153 for every dollar we spending. Still a great bargain :)