GSkill RAM RipjawsX vs perfomance
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Someone Somewhere
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Doesn't matter; likely little difference.
You usually want the cheapest 2x4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5V: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#s=301600,301800,301866,302000,302133,302200,302250,302333,302400,302600,302666,302800&v=1250,1350,1500&z=8192&n=2&c=90,80,70,60,50,40,30&sort=a8&t=11
You usually want the cheapest 2x4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5V: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#s=301600,301800,301866,302000,302133,302200,302250,302333,302400,302600,302666,302800&v=1250,1350,1500&z=8192&n=2&c=90,80,70,60,50,40,30&sort=a8&t=11
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You do want them in pairs, but the difference between equally specced modules is infinitesimal. Anything that is '2x4GB DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5V' will perform pretty much the same. Some will OC better than others though.
The other thing is that gaming is no longer one of the most demanding things around - stuff aimed at the workstation/server market is vastly superior to gaming gear.
The other thing is that gaming is no longer one of the most demanding things around - stuff aimed at the workstation/server market is vastly superior to gaming gear.
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For 1600, performance DRAM is generally considered a set that's CL8 or better yet CL7, with the RJs as an example, you also get a lifetime warranty, better OCing headroom if that may be in the future, and as with anything else, you get what you pay for....
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considering you have to lax the timings to overclock what are the advantages with casL8? and why do you need "super" ram with the high amounts of cache on the processors these days?
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For anyone wanting a performance system, you look to add performance wherever you can, didn't here any mention of Super DRAM. And guess it depends on what you mean by laxing timings, often no need to lax timings, depends on skill of whose doing the OCing if you are actually talking OCing DRAM like taking 1600 spec sticks to 1866 for example....the advantage of CL8 vs say a more staid CL9 is less clock cycles to perform and action
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and here we are talking about something the OP probably doesn't know about or care about................ in reality in everyday life, nobody can tell the difference between performance ram and "cheap" ram. Only Mr. Data from the Enterprise and that's because he's a 24th century android.
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