Wintec AMPX 3AXH1600C8WS4GK
Wintec surprised us with budget-priced parts that take up the speed and timings challenge against high-end contenders. The biggest feature of its AMPX 3AXH1600C8WS4GK is a low Web price of $216, but this isn’t the only trump card in Wintec’s hand.
Rated timings of 8-8-8-24 beat most of the $300+ high-end competitors, even though an overclock-friendly setting of 1.90 volts is needed to get them there. As with most competitors, these DDR3-1600 modules appear to the system as DDR3-1333 and require manual changes to BIOS settings in order to reach full rated performance levels.
Wintec doesn’t include EPP 2.0 or XMP programming to ease BIOS configuration, and these modules don’t even have an 8-8-8-24 timing set for a lower speed. This shouldn’t trouble experienced builders, but it will prevent many “cheap” motherboards with missing BIOS settings from running these inexpensive modules at full speed. AMPX 3AXH1600C8WS4GK should probably be viewed as budget RAM for overclocking fanatics, and used on an appropriate mainstream-or-better motherboard.
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wake me up when something substantial happens in this space..
or when the ATI 4850X2 is released..or a decent SSD.
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Then don't read it, what a waste of your 2 minutes posting that message.
As a none enthusiastic DIY computer builder I'm interested in all components that I may use, as might be others, I want to know what are the recommeded components are.
I'm gonna build a computer around Intel's Nehalem/i7 next year sometime, I currently have an AMD 3200+ Barton/ASUS A7N8X platform, so it should be a pretty decent leap in performance.
mm, memory, how *interesting!*wake me up when something substantial happens in this space..or when the ATI 4850X2 is released..or a decent SSD.zZzz..
To be fair it's not hard to find a system that would offer a
sorry that doesn't read right lol, it should be "the E7200 will easily oc to 3ghz+ given the right chipset and yes, ram, for just over $100"