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Memory Pricing Guide

Biweekly Memory Prices - Week of January 24, 2011 - Page 3

By SharkyExtreme.com Staff January 28, 2011

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 3x1GB, 3x2GB and 3x4GB running at clock speeds from 1333MHz to 2000MHz.

While most of the price drops in this issue's triple-channel DDR3 chart were pretty small, one stands out and should come as welcome news to prospective buyers: a $60 drop in the tracked price of the Patriot Viper II Sector 7 DDR3-1600 3x4GB kit, bringing it down to $200.


Triple-Channel DDR3 Prices

Memory Type Price ChangeVendor
Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 3x2GB $102 $7 Amazon.com
Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 3x2GB $92 -$8 Amazon.com
Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 3x1GB $68 $0 NewEgg
Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 3x2GB $126 $0 NewEgg
Mushkin Enhanced Ridgeback DDR3-1600 3x2GB $120 $0 Amazon.com
OCZ Gold DDR3-1600 3x2GB $90 -$5 NewEgg
Patriot Viper II Sector 7 DDR3-1600 3x2GB $120 $0 NewEgg
Patriot Viper II Sector 7 DDR3-1600 3x4GB $200 -$60 Amazon.com

How Do We Find These Prices?

In preparing this guide, we make use of the price search engines at Pricewatch.com and Pricegrabber.com to find a representative price for each product or product type. With each edition of the guide, we provide you with current data for the prices we track and list how much these prices have changed since the last issue. These prices, you should note, do not include any additional charges for shipping, sales tax, etc. So be sure and ask your vendor about those charges before ordering.

We receive no advertising fees nor any other incentives from any of the manufacturers or vendors that appear in this guide and we are in no way recommending nor endorsing any of these companies. Rather, this guide is intended to give you a sense of what the current pricing trends are for some of the more popular memory modules that are currently available. Since prices change frequently and personal needs and preferences differ, you should make sure to do your own research before making any final purchasing decisions.


Page 1 Biweekly Memory Prices - Week of January 24, 2011
Page 2 Dual-Channel DDR3
  • Page 3 Triple-Channel DDR3

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