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Like smeezekitty said, overclocking RAM can cause instability pretty quickly.

That being said, as long as you don't increase voltage past what the ram and the memory controller can handle, then overclocking it is personally safe. I've got some (sadly now discontinued) 'miracle DIMMs' from Samsung. They were $54 for 8GB of DDR3, 1600, Cas 11 sticks that ran at 1.35v. Running them at 1.5v, I'm hitting 1866, Cas 7... and that's not even pushing them as far as they can go.
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It boils down to looks and size. The sniper ram is a low-profile set of ram. This means it can fit under larger heatsinks. Other than that, that's the only advantage the sniper has. It have a set with 16GB of the g.skill sniper series ram myself and it works and looks great.
 
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Both of those kits qualify as low profile. Either will fit under any of the large air coolers. Go with the Ripjaws as it's cheaper. As said above they are identical specs. The only difference is looks.
 
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Yeah I'm getting the the coolermaster hyper 212 Evo so it's a big heat sink.
I like the look of the sniper series. But I'm going to underclock to 1600 if that makes a differance and does OC ram have better effects on gaming?
 
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If you want DDR3 1600 then buy DDR3 1600. Underclocking RAM makes no sense.

You will get slightly better performance out of DDR3 1866.
 
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So does OC Ram effect it at all? Maybe shortening it life or somthing? If not ill go with the sniper series and OC just don't wanna ruin it.
Srry if I seem a bit paranoid just never OC anything before and everyone makes it seem like some dangerous thing
 
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Like smeezekitty said, overclocking RAM can cause instability pretty quickly.

That being said, as long as you don't increase voltage past what the ram and the memory controller can handle, then overclocking it is personally safe. I've got some (sadly now discontinued) 'miracle DIMMs' from Samsung. They were $54 for 8GB of DDR3, 1600, Cas 11 sticks that ran at 1.35v. Running them at 1.5v, I'm hitting 1866, Cas 7... and that's not even pushing them as far as they can go.
 
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