ram brands. kingston vs corsair vs giskill

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Tony Sharp

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Which brand makes best ram in terms of over all quality-durability-realiabilty. 
KINGSTON VS CORSAIR VS GSKILL.
I AM LOOKING FOR 16GB DDR4, BUT WHICH ONE AND ONLY BRAND TO CHOOSE FROM THESE THREE.
 
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Here's the Qualified Vendor List for your motherboard: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/Z170-DELUXE/Z170-DLX_DRAM_QVL_20151109.pdf

If you're in the US, here's the PCPartpicker DDR4 list sorted by price. I also limited it to stock voltage RAM, because there's very little performance gain going high end OC'd kits: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#sort=a10&page=1&Z=16384002&t=14&V=1200

This is probably the kit I'd get (again if you're in the US): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2a2666c16
Close to the cheapest, well known brand, little faster than those similarly priced and on the compatibility list.
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rhysiam

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To be honest, I don't think anyone really knows the answer to your question and I suspect all you're going to get is people's personal brand preference. For example, I've been buying G.Skill for a while now because every time I've gone to put a rig together they were about the cheapest for the product I was looking for, offer lifetime warranty, and I've never had an issue with them... so they get my business again. No doubt others will have had similar experience with other brands and bad luck with G.Skill.

Here's Puget systems post from last year: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Most-Reliable-Hardware-of-2014-616/
They apparently like Kingston and Crucial, as they've had pretty close to 0 failures. But I have no idea how reputable that post is, or whether other brands are necessarily worse.

Bottom line is (IMHO), get the product you want at the best price you can. You'll be very unlucky to get a dud.
 
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Rather than look to which is best, go to the Manufacturer website and find which ram has been qualified for your MB.
 
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rhysiam

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Here's the Qualified Vendor List for your motherboard: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/Z170-DELUXE/Z170-DLX_DRAM_QVL_20151109.pdf

If you're in the US, here's the PCPartpicker DDR4 list sorted by price. I also limited it to stock voltage RAM, because there's very little performance gain going high end OC'd kits: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#sort=a10&page=1&Z=16384002&t=14&V=1200

This is probably the kit I'd get (again if you're in the US): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2a2666c16
Close to the cheapest, well known brand, little faster than those similarly priced and on the compatibility list.
 
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