{"id":67884,"date":"2014-08-13T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67884"},"modified":"2014-08-13T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:46:56","slug":"ddr4-ram-coming-to-sa-heres-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/67884-ddr4-ram-coming-to-sa-heres-the-price","title":{"rendered":"DDR4 RAM coming to SA &#8211; here&#8217;s the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what&#8217;s better than a gaming PC with DDR3 RAM? A gaming PC with DDR4 RAM, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Our PC building friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evetech.co.za\/PC-Hardware\/crucial-ballistix-sport-32gb-ddr4-2400mhz-gaming-ram-750.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Evetech<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0let us know they will soon be stocking Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Gaming RAM in varying sizes from 4GB to 32GB.<\/p>\n<p>The RAM, which is yet\u00a0to get an arrival date, is priced as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Desktop <strong>4GB<\/strong> &#8211; R1,099<\/li>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz \u00a0<strong>8GB\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; R1,899<\/li>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Kit <strong>8GB<\/strong> &#8211; R1,999<\/li>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Kit <strong>16GB<\/strong> &#8211; R3,299<\/li>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Gaming Kit <strong>16GB<\/strong> &#8211; R3,499<\/li>\n<li>Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHz Gaming Kit <strong>32GB<\/strong> &#8211; R6,499<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DDR4 RAM, according to the information supplied, allows data to be processed faster, a system&#8217;s memory capacity to be doubled, and is 40% more energy efficient than DDR3 technology.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67898\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Crucial-Ballistix-Sport-32GB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67898\" class=\"wp-image-67898\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Crucial-Ballistix-Sport-32GB.jpg\" alt=\"Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 RAM\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 RAM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, I know some of you are asking: &#8220;but what motherboard can I slot this sweet RAM into?&#8221;. Fortunately, the new X99 chipsets should be on their way to SA, too.<\/p>\n<p>The X99 board will not only allow for a shift to DDR4 memory, but will support 8-core CPUs at the top end and Haswell-E, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/7874\/haswelle-8-cores-x99-ddr4\" target=\"_blank\">Anandtech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67900\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MSI-X99-Motherboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67900\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67900\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MSI-X99-Motherboard-600x286.jpg\" alt=\"MSI X99 Motherboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MSI-X99-Motherboard-600x286.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MSI-X99-Motherboard.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MSI X99 Motherboard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Any PC gamers out there ready to fork over some serious cash for some serious speed? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67782-swords-and-swaying-games-you-can-play-this-week.html\">Swords and swaying \u2013 games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67596-do-you-know-all-of-these-playstation-facts.html\">Do you know all of these PlayStation facts?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67706-diablo-3-ultimate-evil-edition-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, what motherboard will you use to unleash the power of DDR4?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":67902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5584,11270,21,12816,12818],"class_list":["post-67884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-ddr4","tag-haswell-e","tag-headline","tag-x99","tag-x99-chipset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}