Memory Kingston or Corsair

bilkul

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hi,
i just bought z97-a motherboard 1150LGa and intel 4770k processor...now i am confused about ram...can anybody advise me which one to buy...Kingston Hyper blu 8gb 1600mhz or corsair and what does cl9 and cl10 stands for.
 
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Kingston and corsair are both good.
Go to their web site and use their ram configurator. Enter your motherboard, and you will get a list of compatible kits.

The cl9/10 are cas numbers. It tells how many cycles it takes the ram to access a row of data. lower is better.
On haswell chips, the speed of ram is largely irrelevant, you are looking at an effective difference in the 1-3% range between the slowest and fastest ram. 1600 or 1866 is about the sweet spot.
Kingston and corsair are both good.
Go to their web site and use their ram configurator. Enter your motherboard, and you will get a list of compatible kits.

The cl9/10 are cas numbers. It tells how many cycles it takes the ram to access a row of data. lower is better.
On haswell chips, the speed of ram is largely irrelevant, you are looking at an effective difference in the 1-3% range between the slowest and fastest ram. 1600 or 1866 is about the sweet spot.
 
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