bowei006

August 24, 2011 at 4:34pm

Sure this may be "Maximum PC" but those speeds are not lackluster. First of all. Most if not all gaming DDR3 RAM has tthe 1.5V. There are those low voltage ones but hey...we are talking a minority. Next a CAS Latency of 7 is no slowpoke as the standard is 9 and mad gaming ones are 5. Plus it's RAM is clocked at 1066 MHz. A misunderstanding between people and some wrong spec's is that most RAM spec's on newegg and such are in MT/s which is half the MHz. Such as if a gamer buys a stick that says DDR3 4GB- 1600 PCIE12***, the RAM is actually clocked at 800MHz and not 1600MHz. Some companies have even wrongfully advertised it because they didn't know the difference either. For example. ~70%(random percentage I made to show how often I see it) of the gaming machines print screen campters of cpu-z or other programs that also show memory freqency(that I seen) usually show their DDR3 stickst at 500+MHz. Pop open CPU-Z right now and check yours. You might be thorougly suprised. So yes. it's pretty good already.

Marthian

August 23, 2011 at 3:07pm

I was thinking with a wrench, "level" it up to level 3 with super fast speeds and a quad sli setup... Of course, hitting it with a wrench would break it, but so would a hammer :P

TerribleToaster

August 23, 2011 at 12:43pm

The RAM's not different, the target audience is, hence price discrimination. A incredibly common tool used by firms to maximize profits.

hammeredtoast

August 23, 2011 at 10:03am

That was a "rofl" comment. I'd click like, but you know...