Is it worth getting Corsair Dominator Platinum?

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unksol

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first, you are not comparing the same CAS level, which is part of the price difference. Second For non APUs memory speed over 1600 is largely wasted, but I would at least get CAS 9. 3rd 16GB is USUALLY a waste of money. Most people can't even use 8. Finally, the rest of the price is the pretty heat spreader. Memory does not need heat spreaders at all. And I would never recommend high profile spreaders like either of those. They just cause problems
 
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HuntTheShunt

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A few years ago I bought a dominator pack that had the three fans and it did look stunning.
However, after a while I traced an annoying fan noise to one of the three fans so I have binned the fan unit.

Now I know better I will never buy fancy heat spreader ram. I spend the money on good quiet case fans instead.
 
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Tradesman1

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All depends on what YOU do and what YOU want, here the 1866/CL9 should have much better performance than a 1600/CL10 - overall performance wise 1866/9 set roughly equates to a 1600/8 set (this comes from the higher bandwidth of the 1866 compensates for the tighter CL of the 1600 set
 
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klepp0906

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thing is, when people like you want "proof" what they mean is show me a game that gets higher FPS due to memory timings. But performance isn't just FPS. People might want more "performance" in archiving or encoding/decoding or any number of corporate level IT work/jobs/software that faster ram would serve well and that coincidentally benchmarks/synthetics such as sisoft reproduce/represent fairly well.

so no, you wont notice much more than a few fps gamewise, but in other areas of your pc that your GPU wont add "performance" to, the ram will
 
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Tradesman1

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Any benchmarks are just that, it tells you what something does in a given circumstance, a normal person - except when gaming - has a number of things going on, browsers (often multiple tabs/windows) and other apps open and running, this is where higher freq and tight CLs come into play - it's processing more and faster to help eliminate reads/writes to your page file on the hard drive, also with memory centric apps like imaging, video, CAD, VMs, the performance DRAM excels....when looking at reviews the writers almost always throw in the line that you won't see any real difference in 'real world' scenarios --- BUT --- they never show anything to show real world scenarios, because there is no BM to show it....this same 'real world' line most all use has been being said for years going back to DDR and DDR2 (even SIMMs)...also note than many of these 'reviewers' don't know DRAM, can't remember how many 'reviews' I've seen where they (these experts) make ridiculous remarks like "the DRAM is 1866 but only started at 1333"....duh, all DRAM when first installed goes to the mobo default......or 'the set of DRAM failed to set the correct XMP settings when XMP is enabled" again ...duh...the DRAM has XMP profiles in the SPD which are, pure and simple - information - nothing more nothing less, when XMP is enabled it's up to the BIOS to take that info and properly implement it, which often the BIOS doesn't do - and is why you see so many BIOS updated, while seldom shown, more often than not the buld of BIOS updates consists of DRAM XMP updates.
 
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SENOR BURTOS

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then asking about which is better is silly

You are buying for aesthetics. Only you know if the extra looks are worth $50 or not

As for the ram itself, they won't make much of the difference in performance
 
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