DDR3 Deals & Offers

Ok...maybe not as qualified as a Dell driver but I've built well over 10,000 PCs and servers, some of which have been or still are in use in some of the most adverse environments in the world, from the top of mountains to military installations. I've seen hundreds of memory-related issues when types have been mixed. The bottom line is if you mix memory you "could" get issues, even today. I'm not saying you will though - there is an important distinction. More fool you if you dispute that.

Define professional? A Dell RTB courier doesn’t quite fit the description. Mixed RAM specs is more likely to cause an issue as it’s using what happened to be laying around. Probably an old poorly stored sore stick or pulled from an inoperable carcass. Even then it’s probably the additional stick might not officially be on the QVL list. Last year Ryzen showed that memory can be finicky. However that was due to poor initial BIOS revisions, not due to the JEDEC standards and protocols.

Does anyone ever buy direct from Crucial? I use it to check I'm ordering the correct RAM.

Picked one up today was hynix 😣

cheers need to get myself some memory :)

Excellent heat added!! if you guys dont want to wait for few days with amazin at 99.99, get it from ebuyer for same price. https://www.ebuyer.com/744527-linksys-wrt1900acs-ultra-smart-wi-fi-router-ac1900-wrt1900acs-uk

This over MESH?

It doesn't. You need the 3200 version for that. I don't care at the moment.

so this doesn't have MU-MIMO but does that really matter?

Most likely interference. The BT hub isn’t as smart as it says it is, I had a similar issue solved by simply changing the channel in the hub menu manually. Type 192.168.l.254 into a browser and use login info on the back of the router. If you have an Iphone the Apple airport utitility app has a nifty simple trick of checking channels on nearby networks if you have the same channel as one of them it could be the issue. You want to choose a channel that you don’t see as often (or preferably at all) in the list to lessen any interference. There are lots of other ways of checking nearby channels. You may have already tried this step. Hope this helps. Edit: If this doesn’t work then I recommend a full factory reset and if no joy it is probably a hardware issue.

Yes they do. .. but my reply was aimed at miners and the price hikes on gfx cards..

They did but due to there overstock on everything and reluctance to lower prices they are STILL closing down

Did Maplin not go bust?

Just posted a deal for Corsair LPX 16GB at pretty much this price. Best I could find after the patriot ram got cancelled. In stock too! https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/corsair-vengeance-lpx-16gb-2x-8gb-3000mhz-ddr4-10298-amazoncouk-2928127

I thought computers also needed ram. :p

All of those uses would be possible.

Lego CRYSIS at 120x90

Perfect for a HyperSpin machine

just a headsup : I have just this morning opened up a ticket with Gearbest on a very similar item (7 months old) for any repair YOU have to pay to ship it back to China. Will see how it goes. :| these are good media players web browsing , general low level stuff it will even play CRYSIS at 120x90

Vorke V1 Plus supports one HDMI & 1 VGA simultaneously

The real one has an MTK6797. The implicit 6769 said to be in this makes it a high risk buy.

Also mentions two resolutions 2560×1600 and 1920 1200 :/

Not bad spec but would be nervous spending this much on an unbranded device

CPU: MTK6769, Deca Core,up to 2.6GHz Ultra-low-voltage platform and Octa-core processing provide Octa / Deca ... which one is it ? Not that it makes much difference being a mediatek CPU ..

I have updated it as it should first thing when i power it on. No problem for me :D

Mines playing up since the ota upgrade. Google play services won't update. Have u had that?

Ive the fire hd 10 is this a worth the upgrade?

You might prefer this Design looking like Samsung Galaxy phone of course :) the other does not have home physical button !!!

I've got T10 for a bit less 1 month ago from Gearbest.. i dont think this could be a good deal at all. All works perfect. super fast tablet. like this one of course the only thing is that this is 8'' :)

Thanks mate

You can easily run it on an i3. As I said above, I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi 3. Just bear in mind the newer gen will be more power efficient.

Can anyone please advise if an I3 processor or i5 could be ok for PLEX server? There are so many generations of above to choose it’s hard to know where to begin. Would an I5 generation 3 or 4 do? Or an I3 generation 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 do?

Sorry for the late reply, most good fan brands get their fans tested by various people; do a search for low noise fans, and you will find a lot of sites that review and rate them; often divided into sizes and price bands as well. Noctua make some of the best quiet fans, also very reliable, although not the cheapest. You have to balance how much air they move (CFM), against noise (dbl), and RPM. High RPM usually means more noise, but if it is a high CFM, you can run usually it at 50% and it can be very quiet, and yet still push more air than some of the "silent" fans.

Is there a way of knowing how quiet a fan is before testing? My current desktop sounds like a 747, but unsure what to replace it with?

Hi Reddit,is there a similiar product you could point me to that would serve as a replacement for an old Acer small footprint pc which I mainly use for streaming movies etc,and i just prefer the Win 10 os rather than Android,cheers,Chris

Interesting you mention because I got one through a deal you posted a while back and I have to say I'm quite pleased with it. I use it as a Plex Server with 2 external HDs in Raid 1 connected via USB. I obviously don't push it too much so that's probably where the difference is but I'm happy I got it.

Had one of these and it wasn't very good. Overheated due to poor design that requires a hardware mod to fix and SATA port was not very fast. Manufacturer support is also almost non existent. With Gemini Lake boxes being introduced, Apollo lakes will plummet much further than this.

I took the plunge and purchased 2 x 4GB DDR3 from CEX, cost £21.50, as one i ordered off their website, one i had on a local shop, excellent price cheaper than Ebay. Seems to work well so far. And you get a 2 year warranty.

I bought a couple of packs of this when it was posted at £90 and running great on an i7-3930K (hex core i7 at 4.2Ghz, no slouch), I was looked at Cex or ebay but the difficulty with ram is that it can be easy to damage it by mishandling but also faulty ram can be a pain to diagnose as the machine may just randomly BSOD, it needs work with memtest to thoroughly test it. Although this isn't the outright cheapest way to get DDR3 ram, I think it's a great price for memory with a proper warranty.

Ive a GIGABYTE GA-MA74GMT-S2 motherboard, does it make much difference what DDR3 1333mhz Ram i buy? I see they do 2 types in CEX, 4 GB PC12800 DDR3 1600MHz 240 Pin Memory and 4 GB PC10600 DDR3 1333MHz 240 Pin Memory. I was going to buy 2 x 4gb today, any idea? Does it make much difference which one i buy? Thanks

Which has no bearing on this deal as DDR3 is still used in very many systems.

SD-RAM must be free by now!

Scan price has now dropped to only £32.48.

If anyone has seen any 1151 ddr3 motherboards with 4 ram slots, kindly let me know...just looking for an excuse not to buy ddr4!

Micro ATX by the description and a quick look at the thumbnail.

Would this not be ideal for someone who likes to buy the previous generation? I'm still running a 7200 C2duo with 4gb ddr2 ram in Win10 for basic browsing and word processing. This seems to be a decent step up whilst avoiding the pricy ddr4 route.

Isn't this an ITX board

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I was tired. 6GB

you can't have scoured hard enough, its on av forums since last week when i first found it :)

Typical. I've been scouring selling forums looking for that exact same ram setup.

just found 8Gb of the corsair vangence 2400 in a draw, paid premium for that and only used it for a week as 8Gb wasn't enough working with VMs, this is about same price i paid 2 years ago tho :)

He might be a peasant but I can't say what you are or I would get banned.

Yeah, when I first started using a PC in 1997/8, I can remember being told that it was roughly £1 per MB after earthquakes in the major RAM manufacturing region of the far east. That would be a whopping £16,000ish, would it not for 16GB of RAM that is common place in most desktops these days? (shock) I dare say laptop RAM would have been even more expensive.

Hahahahahahahaha, kinda depends on how far back you're going really?. After all, 100MB RAM Sticks back in 1995/1996 sort of time, were the best part of £120+ at least?!. :-( Lol.

Whys DDR3 still so high I expect this of DDR4 but not this

Thanks for letting us know.

Had a cancellation email as well, it's the 4th in a row, This is beginning to be a plague, i wouldn`t be surprised if they are doing it on purpose just for click bait, where are the trading authority to slap them with a fine

Had mine cancelled, 2nd item cancelled by Amazon in 2 days. They are getting bad at this now.

Hello, I've cancelled and can see that your the Corsair CML8GX3M2A2133C11B Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 2133 Mhz CL11 XMP Performance Desktop Memory Kit Blue  from your order is cancelled due to some pricing error and you haven’t been charged for it. We are writing to inform you that the price for the item was displayed incorrectly at the time you placed your order. Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occasionally occur. Where an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will cancel the order and notify you of that cancellation. If you still wish to purchase this item, please place a new order online which will be charged at the correct price, when we dispatch it to you. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this error.

hard luck makes the pain of missing out by 10 mins quite bearable :)

Cancelled :(

How many are returned and how easy to arrange .

Anything having problems with getting USB 3 speeds？ Pretty sure there are USB 3 ports because of the blue slots but can't find USB3 host controller in the device manager. Tried to search for new drivers／delete existing so that Windows will locate new ones but to no avail. The Intel 5 ／C200 Series doesn't have native support for USB3 so I have find third party drivers if I can work out what make it is.

Thanks for this! Would never have guessed myself. Glad to see there's space for 2.5'' drive inside so i've installed an SSD there and currently cloning the existing drive over. Also looks like it's a standard processor and not soldered to the board. Will have to look into upgrading at some point. CPU-Z stated a free dimm slot but that isn't the case. Only 1 on the board. But there's a mini pci-e card slot free so going to add in a wifi/bt card once it arrives. Hopefully the SSD fixes the issue i've been having because it's a lovely machine otherwise.

Magnets! No wonder it's not obvious....didn't try just pulling it apart! Mine has gone back today...

Front panel is held down with strong magnets.

You are correct. The FX-8320 does bottleneck a GTX1060 3GB. Two of my friends own this combo and we tested in 5 games we play together. Best example: GW2, max settings, town area (a lot of players). FX-8320=20fps, and my i7-4790K=54fps. Same location in games, same settings, same gpu. You can't even call this cpu a gaming cpu.

FX-8320 is worse than a Pentium G4560. Pass.

Feel bad with some of it lol. Picked up a Benq 23" LED 1080p monitor for a tenner off a guy on facebook. Noones interested in monitors after laptops and tablets took over, always tons of them for sale for buttons

This is very obviously a PC built from old stock with a 1060 shoved in, I'm a fan of AMD FX chips - at the right price, but this isn't it. My son's FX 8320 is already a bottleneck for the 280x he has in some games, I doubt the 1060 in this will be able to reach its full performance in running on such an old chip - remember that the FX 8300 in this "new" PC was manufactured 5-6 years ago! If you must have a prebuilt wait for the right deal with a Ryzen or recent Intel CPU, or ask around friends and family to see if anyone can help you with building one from scratch.

i3 8100, windforce 1060 3gb, 8gb 2400mhz ddr4, better case, psu and hdd for £586. Have to build it yourself and wait for parts, but should be a lot better system, low end pcs are rubbish to buy anyway, need to be upgraded soon and the step up to better parts is quite cheap in retrospect.

Now gone up to £69.48. ;(

Down to £44.9 Just got £5 refund from Amazon :)

Only 1 left but dropped down to £49.97 in Currys

Cheaper than when i bought in 2016!

Maybe there is a difference when you are talking about performance RAM (like this) vs. basic, loose-timing standard RAM. I don't know, I just know I haven't had the misfortune of anything so finicky it ruins a build and after fiddling with RAM I'll always make it do at least one pass of Memtest86+. Anyway, I'm fairly sure that everyone knows even computers aren't exact science. You can configure two machines with identical components and one may fail to boot first time whereas the other may be fine.

I can't even give these away at work! even first gen i3 and i5 are hard to give away (for free). So much cold.

Yep, way overpriced for the probably 8 year old CPU that resides inside it. If it was £100 with an SSD then OK but not this price.

Go for This one

Hugely overpriced.

refurbished = wiped over with a rag

Back up to over £200 on that link now... expired...

Back in stock :D EDIT: aaaaaaand its gone....

Damn I somehow missed this, do prices ever go this low normally? I am thinking of selling my x2 4gb Corsair vengance ddr3 ram and getting x2 8gb ddr3...I hear its better to have x2 8gb than x4 4gb?? I will prob have to go down the second hand route... Is there a big risk in buying second hand ram?

jonnyuk .. yes you should be good to go.. you can always use "optimized settings" in your BIOS. +1 just for posting a DDR3 deal

The 2 x 8 sticks are 1600mhz, it's the 4gb sticks which are faster. The 2133mhz Ram will work on your board, but will down clock to 1600

32gb of storage is also useless under w10 as it will take about 22gb , add in the android stuff and only a few gbs left..

It was probably better to have missed this, as the Teclast X80 Pro is very similar but has of course a screen and battery and still has HDMI out. Hopefully however tomorrorow maybe these will repeat.

Uhhhh... just saw this deal now and its expired! ;(

If you use Windows you will be using Windows. If you use android you will be using android. (ninja)

So would sky Go be Worthing through windows and internet explorer or through android ?

No, but sounds great! :) Thanks for the tips! Did not sign up for nord wasn't sure if I need it for that price. currently using avira (1GB free) and avast £10 a year so did not really see a need to sign up for £25/y with nord?

Haven't used them for a while so not too sure on that. Glad to see this hasn't come down in price today on .co.uk site. Mine is showing it'll be dispatching tomorrow and here on Tue / Wed. The QNAP website gives you the ability to log in to a demo nas drive with them which is pretty cool. Hopefully once plex is installed and Nordvpn details entered, i'll be able to watch some American shows... any experience with it?

Thanks! How is ebauyer these days?

Yes, Amazon is out of stock so it automatically shows you the next best seller... who doesn't ship to the UK. You can still buy one from Amazon (its on the right hand column showing 207.28 euro) if they come back in stock they will send you one, if not your order will get cancelled.

It says can't deliver to UK? am I missing something?