High quality products have always been very expensive, just like rare or even unique devices. Nowadays there are stores where special, carefully selected “overclockable” hardware is sold for higher price to those, who would like to be confident about potential of the acquired parts. Besides, there are companies, who sell their hardware with a guarantee that it will be capable of functioning at speeds above ratified standards. In general, this kind of hardware – be it a graphics card with faster memory chips, or memory modules with high overclocking potential – costs substantially more compared to ordinary devices of the kind. Fortunately, with the escalating popularity of overclocking, there are more and more affordable overclockers-oriented hardware.

Kingmax – the company mostly known for its high-quality memory modules based on BGA DRAM chips – announced this week availability of its DDR433 (PC3500) memory for overclockers in budget. The memories are made using traditional TSOP chips clocked at double-pumped 216MHz (resulting speed: 433MHz).

Kingmax Semiconductor claims its SuperRam PC3500 modules at 433MHz will be available shortly at PC3200 pricing. The idea to offer more expensive modules at lower price point is definitely worth pointing out, even though the first company to offer PC3500 memory modules for budget-minded users was OCZ, who started to offer them in May this year (see May 15, 2003, news-story).