Biweekly Memory Prices - Week of December 27, 2010 - Page 3

Triple-Channel DDR3

The emergence of the Intel Core i7 processor and X58 chipset brought with it a very powerful triple-channel DDR3 onboard memory controller, and many vendors welcomed this new architecture with a series of triple-channel, or matched triplets, DDR3 kits. This allows buyers of the Core i7/X58 platform to purchase three matched DDR3 modules, without the added expense and potential risk of combining a dual-channel kit with a single module. In this market, some popular triple-channel DDR3 configurations include the 3x1GB, 3x2GB, and 3x4GB running at DDR3 clock speeds from 1333 MHz to 2000 MHz.

Here in the Triple-Channel DDR3 chart, we have six price drops to report, with only two of the prices we track not dropping since the last issue of the guide. The biggest dollar-drop of this chart (and the guide) was a $30 drop in the tracked price of the Patriot Viper II Sector 7 DDR3-1600 3x4GB kit, though others fell by a larger percentage.

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