Which ram should i choose?

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kumarsaurabhraj

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Hello! I am hooking up my haswell build, i have bought an i7 4770 but i am quite confused about the ram . I need an 16GB(2*8GB) ram @ 1600MHz(I do not need too high frequency ram). I am confused which one to choose among these two -
1.> http://www.flipkart.com/g-skill-ripjawsx-ddr3-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-pc-ram-f3-12800cl10d-16gbxl/p/itmd8bc6bjdvpucr?pid=RAMD8BC6AV3GXS9G

This one is a beauty having heat spreads and latency 10. But i am not going to overclock so i think the heat spreaders are not going to do much good to me.

Option 2

http://www.flipkart.com/g-skill-nt-ddr3-8-gb-1-x-gb-pc-ram-f3-1600c11s-8gnt/p/itmdfa6npcngznzm?pid=RAMDFA3ZJWVWCVRE

This one quite ugly compared to option one and in the specifications section in the frequency section 1600MHz(test) is written which i am unable to understand properly. Even the latency is 11 will this make my workstation performance worse? And even this one is not sold in kit like the earlier one so i will have to buy two of them since the two will not be in kit (each bought separate of exact model no.) then will this cause any extra latency or some other sort of problem.

I am quite unfamiliar to memory so I request everyone to be quite detailed with the answers.
I am an a tight budget so Rs. 1000 ($16.6) matters.

All kinds of help are invited,
Regards!
 
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Yout Flip cart pages don't want to come up, so with 1600 sticks look first for 1.5 volt - don't want any higher, these are entry level sticks and a mx of CL at 9, any higher of a CL like 10-11 should just get 1333 sticks, because effectively , they will out perform the 1600/10-11
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HEXiT

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buy the ram with the lowest latency if your sticking to 1600mhz each step down in latency will give roughly 2% perfomance increase which is comparable to a 133mhz increase in the overall ram speed.
its really not essential to buy ram just because it has a higher price because of claimed performance gains. the reality is ddr3 1600 ram regardless of price will work within 1-2% of any other brand of ddr3 1600 and as long as you stay within what the cpu can handle natively as far as ram speed goes then your always gonna be better off getting the lowest latency ram you can find.
 
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Yout Flip cart pages don't want to come up, so with 1600 sticks look first for 1.5 volt - don't want any higher, these are entry level sticks and a mx of CL at 9, any higher of a CL like 10-11 should just get 1333 sticks, because effectively , they will out perform the 1600/10-11
 
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