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508Parkour

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I am doing a build pretty soon with an H100i. I've heard that with this cooler you need Ram clearence and need an LP model. I recently saw the vengence pro and saw that it was similair to what I was paying. Do I need LP Ram? Will pro ram see performance gains? Are there light up versions of corsair ram?
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Lucas
 
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There's no technical differences in brand.

Corsair, Mushkin, G.Skill, Kingston, etc... all they do is test the SDRAM chips, throw them on a PCB, slap on a heat sink, package the resulting modules, and ship them to wholesalers and vendors.

The actual integrated circuits are manufactured by only a small number of SDRAM manufacturers, Samsung, Hynix and Micron have the lion's share of the market.
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Pinhedd

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LP stands for "Low Profile". Corsair's non-LP memory has tall heatsinks which can get in the way of CPU coolers. SDRAM doesn't generate that much heat anyway so it's not even necessary for such full blown heat sinks to exist except in the case of water cooled systems.

You could probably fit an H100i in along with Corsair's high profile memory as long as the DIMM slots aren't too close to the CPU. In the event that they are, you may want to grab some LP modules just to play it safe.
 
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I have the 350D, the H100i, and the corsair vengeance pro. All fit together very nicely, at least on my motherboard. The H100i heatsink itself isn't all that big.

As pinhedd said, the only reason to get ram with the heat fins is if you are water cooling, which you are. It'll depend on your case's airflow, but it might be a good idea to get the pro set.
 
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Pinhedd

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Max out the DRAM voltage, guaranteed to light up*

There's a variety of LP and Pro modules but in general the LP modules are somewhat more conservative in their timings due to the inferior cooling. The difference is pretty marginal and at some speeds the LP and regular modules have identical logical specifications.

*Operation for more than 100 nanoseconds not guaranteed
 
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Pinhedd

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If you're on a budget, Corsair is generally the wrong way to go. Their products are awesome, and the price premium is well deserved, but it is a price premium none the less.

These ones below will perform ever so slightly better for about $65 less

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226382

Mushkin Redline is what I use in my rig, very good stuff.

EDIT:

Since you're going for a 4770k you might even want to consider these ones below. DDR3-2133 rather than DDR3-1866

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226429
 
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There's no technical differences in brand.

Corsair, Mushkin, G.Skill, Kingston, etc... all they do is test the SDRAM chips, throw them on a PCB, slap on a heat sink, package the resulting modules, and ship them to wholesalers and vendors.

The actual integrated circuits are manufactured by only a small number of SDRAM manufacturers, Samsung, Hynix and Micron have the lion's share of the market.
 
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