The company will adopt the new chips from Micron to provide sets with a volume of up to 96GB – at an initial recommended price of almost 400 dollars
After the launch from Micron’s Crucial brand, which was quickly adopted by MSI and GIGABYTE – now it seems that the Corsair company is joining the celebration with its own modules in the neighborhood’s new volumes: 24GB and 48GB, in addition to the models sold in 16GB and 32GB volumes.
The new modules do not yet appear on Corsair’s official website, but according to the publications they will be offered as part of the Vengeance and Vengeance RGB series, both with an included heatsink, with a basic working voltage of 1.25 volts, with compatibility with Intel’s XMP 3.0 technology profiles and at verified speeds of 5,200MT/s under CL38 timings or at a verified speed of 5,600MT/s with CL40 timings – in a total volume of 48GB for a pair of modules or 96GB for a pair of modules.
The capabilities of these modules are already an improvement over the modules from Crucial in the same volumes, even if they will be offered for sale without a shell that helps to dissipate their heat – but the most juicy data as of this moment comes from the website of the Canadian hardware store PC Canada, where the modules were displayed for a short time with their prices: on According to a report by tomshardware, the base version without built-in color illumination with a total capacity of 48GB based on a pair of 24GB modules was priced at US$192.48 before tax, while the base version with a speed of 5,200MT/s without the addition of RGB with a total capacity of 96GB based on a pair of modules of 48GB cost an amount equivalent to 392.64 US dollars before tax.
Now comes our chance to make comparisons, when a quick wander through the realms of Amazon reveals that similarly performing DDR5 modules of 32GB total can be found today for $110 or $115 before tax, which is $3.50 for every GB of dynamic memory you get for your investment. . Dual module cases with heat spreaders and equivalent performance with a total volume of 64GB carry a very similar price tag that starts at $230 before tax – and this compares to an average price of slightly more than $4 per GB in the case of the modules from Corsair in the increased volumes in the PC Canada, or in other words a price increase of about 15 percent compared to what is available in the hardware market more broadly in the last two years.
This is a surprisingly positive starting point in our opinion, and if we assume that Asus and ASRock will soon also announce official support for the new volumes and encourage more memory suppliers to join the celebration – we will not be surprised if within a few months there will no longer be a significant difference in the relative average prices between 16GB modules , 32GB and 24GB so that each user can adjust the volume of his system more effectively to his requirements and budget.