Corsair model difference confusion.

drtoast

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I've spent about a month now chopping and changing, price stalking components for my soon to be build. Pcpartpicker is great at filtering to compatibilities. I've come to the conclusion that a set of Corsair vengeance is a decent way to go for a reasonably high performance gamestation (single monitor) for now.

Yet even with compatibility filters I get so many different sets of corsair vengeance, at different prices. Just for example, here are 3

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cml8gx3m2a1600c9

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b

Now I'm not a complete idiot. I see the difference in model names. I can take a reasonable guess that the b on the third model stands for blue, however there is still a price difference between it and the second link. So is there any performance change?

Also the first link is 'cml' as opposed to 'cmz', is there any performance or reliability difference between these that could cause a price difference? As I cant see anything to distinguish them in their specs listings on newegg (which I check as they seem to be the most reliable site for physical feature breakdowns)
 
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Okay. The first one is low profile, which is designed to fit under large heatsinks, because having the other two, can lead to incompatibilities with CPU heatsinks if they're too big and too low.

As you said with the third one, the one with the B, that does mean its blue.

They all run at the same speeds and there won't be any performance difference. 1.5 V ram doesn't need heatsinks, so just get the 1st low profile one incase you get a beefy heatsink in the future.

JJ1217

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Okay. The first one is low profile, which is designed to fit under large heatsinks, because having the other two, can lead to incompatibilities with CPU heatsinks if they're too big and too low.

As you said with the third one, the one with the B, that does mean its blue.

They all run at the same speeds and there won't be any performance difference. 1.5 V ram doesn't need heatsinks, so just get the 1st low profile one incase you get a beefy heatsink in the future.
 
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Princess Indiad

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They all run at the same speeds and there won't be any performance difference. 1.5 V ram doesn't need heatsinks, so just get the 1st low profile one incase you get a beefy heatsink in the future.