Pretty crazy, 8GB of fast DDR4 for cheaper than some ddr3's…
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400MHz 8GB (2x4GB) - $69 Shipped (Was $199) @ Shopping Express
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Do they ship for $3?
Nope my delivery charge was $13 minimum.SE includes delivery.
I thought it was 2x 8GB for that price. Heart beat fast for a few seconds.
And then comes the let down.
I wouldn't get 2 x 4GB sticks in this modern age. That limits you to 16GB RAM if you're on LGA1151/1150 and really puts a dent in your upgrade potential. I'd prefer to go with a single 8GB stick if I don't have the budget and allow myself the room to move up to 32GB in the future.
Yes, you lose dual channel, but it's not much of an issue anyway.
I wouldnt think all that many people need more than 8Gb let alone 16Gb?
Be realistic here. What is most people's normal use? MS Office, web, maybe Pshop, maybe a few games… is that going to kill 8Gb let alone 16Gb.
If you truly have a need for that due to some specialist task, then you dont need to ask this, you already know.
I'm just saying as my original i7 920 has 12Gb, my i7 3820 has 16Gb and my 2ndary Xeon E3 has only 8Gb but it never seems to have an issue with whatever I throw at it.
Most people wouldn't buy this ram if they were going to be using under 16GB, if not more.
Vengeance is high end expensive performance RAM targeted at gamers.
That being said, even 8GB is not enough for some office multi-tasking - especially if you're like me and have no less than 10 browser tabs open at any one time ;)
Gaming (modern AAA titles at least) absolutely eat up memory. Many games will barely run on medium settings with 8GB or RAM.
Can you provide some examples where gaming detail is limited by RAM?
I've been running on 4gb of ram for over 3 years now and not one game has had an issue with that, including, but not excluded to: Crysis 1, 2, 3, Witcher 1 & 2, Metro 2033 and Last Light, Far Cry 3 and 4, BF3 and Skyrim heavily modded.
All these games infact have RAM to spare. Obviously there is some paging going on behind the scene, but it would seem this is done very efficiently. It has either no affect, or such a negligible impact on performance that it can't be noticed by real word use or consistent bench marking (based on me achieving the range of benchmarks for my GPU.)
A side note worth mentioning: my steam folder is located on a very old WD black 500gb drive from the days of old when the first dual core CPUS hit the market, so the paging is not assisted greatly by a SSD (more hindered than anything).
And if the upgrade I did on my low end gaming laptop is anything to go by 4gb to 8gb of ram upgrades net 0 FPS gain.
All those games are old mate.
New games like GTAV, Witcher 3 and Battlefield 4 will struggle to run with 8GB on anything but low-medium settings
Sure, but why would you give up upgrade potential for nothing, not to mention that it's often cheaper to get a stick of 8GB than two sticks of 4GB? For almost all uses, even video editing, there is very little improvement with dual channel or even quad channel RAM.
No one believes SE's original prices. You can buy 8gig single sticks for 70 bucks.