DDR3 DDR4 RAM price trends thread.

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Northern

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I think that is a very good price in today's market, especially being low voltage... Link to ebay listing or it didn't happen... :)
 

K D

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Is $65 a good price for
16GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 240-pin ECC RDIMM (oracle p/n 7018701)
 

Northern

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IMHO that is not a good prices.... frogtech just got 16GB PC3L-12800 for 35 a stick. I would say $40 a stick is a good price in quantity but if you just need one then expect to pay more
 

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IMHO that is not a good prices.... frogtech just got 16GB PC3L-12800 for 35 a stick. I would say $40 a stick is a good price in quantity but if you just need one then expect to pay more
Do you have a link for it?
 

Evan

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What would be the disadvantage of DDR3L vs DDR3? I can't think of any.
Very rarely there is some systems than can’t use both the regular and Low voltage. Certainly I see some systems that only support Low voltage but not so much know if reverse is true.
 

Evan

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I thought that DDR3L is always backwards compatible to 1.5V. Who knew.
Bit of edge case, not common.
But it’s like some systems that support rdimm support only 1R/2R and not 4R, others that will support 2R/4R and not 1R, systems like Xeon-D that support rdimm but not lrdimm.

Only came to know about these things after running into a few just assuming something would work until it doesn’t and then it’s time to read the manual.
 
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What would be the disadvantage of DDR3L vs DDR3? I can't think of any.
the low voltage ram sometimes (i've seen this on Supermicro X8 / X9 boards) runs a bit slower than the regular voltage stuff, especially when configured with multiple channels and multiple DIMMs per channel. i didn't realize this until i bought some PC3L DDR3 and couldn't get it to be recognized at the rated speed. then went to read the Supermicro manual and saw that when using low voltage ram, it runs slower than regular voltage RAM across the board.

also, on Supermicro boards, using low voltage RAM also limits how many DIMMs you can use per channel.

in short, i've learned that if i want to max out RDIMM RAM on a board at the highest speed possible, buy regular voltage RDIMMs and 1R or 2R.
 
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That's a decently fair price for that Hynix RAM. Very close to what I paid last year for mine, if I needed some RAM just now, that's what I would be snapping up :)
 

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If anyone is looking for Hynix 8GB 2Rx4 PC3-10600R, I have 50+ available @ $25/each shipped.

Also have 6 x Hynix 8GB 2Rx4 PC3-8500R @ $20

and 12 x Hynix 2Rx4 PC3-10600R @ $15