Very hard hunt good chipset, not all XM2 D9GMH or D9GKX... Their heantsink is sealed cant see wut chipset inside... i not wan bashed Crossair, but i already had a bad exprience with XMS2 b4...

Yeah, due to sudden demand caused by the recent drop. Don't expect it to go up for long though, as ram manufacturers are switching back to producing dram. Previously almost all the ram manufacturers had been producing NAND flash and other related stuff due to the realtively high profits in those sectors-hence why flash memory is now cheaper than ever. Expect flash memory prices to keep dropping, but definitely slower, and may even go up for the short term.

There are ways to check what chipset XMS2 uses (different for each revision though), for that matter its quite easy to look up chipset for most of the high performance ram. Other than micron D9GMH and D9GKX, AFAIK there are very few other chipsets that can match their overclocking performance. But if DDR2-1000 is good enough for you, then finding a chipset should not be that difficult. Higher than that is when things get difficult.

dude... only 2 GB per stick available in m'sia...

so wat other brand u recommend...? i haven't decided yet... but other brands not easily available in PC fair... have to either go Lowyat or bulk order...

DDR price not really fix now... going up actually...

Crucial Ballistix is recommended for overclocking - uses D9GMH chips. Better get now before price goes up again. DDR3 expected to be expensive when they debut. Not worth getting it early IMHO although reviews with P35 boards show that they perform better than DDR2 low latency chips in higher frequencies, ie 1066 and higher even with higher latencies

This post has been edited by aloy237: Jun 7 2007, 03:59 AM

In the beginning it'll outperform most DDR2 when the frequencies goes up higher, its very natural. Later when the market starts to shift to DDR3, then thats when the latencies will start to get tighter.

By the way, fyi, RAM prices just increase by RM 10-15 this week. Even for Kingstons, price r hiking too.

wander if the 2gb per stick ddr2 would be short life as the old ddr400 1gb stick............

Prices should start going up now. Ram manufacturers are already taking steps to make sure that happens

I feel like been cheated by that time. Soon after Vista lunch the price goes down like hell. Now it is very cheap coz over supply.