[ZDNet] Intel sneaks out quad-core Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E processor for under $300

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2/19/12 at 5:56am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ericeod

Pretty much, yes. I've been buying and running 2x4Gb kits, 3 kits at a time, and running them as 6x4Gb kits in X58 builds for almost a year. I now have 4 kits of the Samsung $40 2x4Gb DDR3 1600 kits waiting for the CPU and motherboard to arrive...(these things are OCing to DDR3 2133-2500).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alatar

Yeah you can do that. Actually I'm running only dual channel atm with 2 dimms, because I ordered two 8GB (2x4GB) dual channel kits from corsair and the other one hasn't arrived yet. Rig works fine and also benches fine.

Anyways the "X-amount-of-channels" ram kits are mostly marketing tricks. Just go for the best price/perf.

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Originally Posted by Brutuz

Yep, quad channel kits are just more modules. The actual chips are the exact same.

You guys are AWESOME!

Thanks for the info and +Rep

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