Corsair XMS3 vs. OCZ Reaper HPC Edition Triple Channel

Hi guyz,

my question is:

What is better? The Corsair XmS3 with a latency of CL7 ( 7-7-7-20 )
or, The OCZ Reaper HPC Edition Triple Channel witha a latency of ( 7-7-7-24 )

They run at the same speed of 1600Mhz.
The cost at my store is the same, so the price doesn't matter.

Pls give me your opinion!

Thx!!!

I think the OCZ requires 1.9V, a big no-no on some boards/cpu's.

Go for the one with the lowest power requirement. The specs you give are the same basically.

OK sounds good, You're right, I was looking at the duals. But I wasn't aware that ALL triple channel RAM was 1.65V either. So if they make 1.9V dual-channel, do they make 1.9V 3-channel?

Makes you wonder why anyone would make 1.9V DDR3 RAM anymore at all. I see so many issues related to voltage requirements in this forum, even with DDR2. Maybe Intel's standard will force all companies into tighter standards. I suppose that 2.2V say is cheaper to manufacture?

But it seems clear that from the user's standpoint, 1.8V-2.0V for DDR2 and 1.5V-1.65V for DDR3 would make a lot of sense. And would reduce the need, and demand, for such a wide variety of modules.

gkay, check out this thread for an odd problem caused by the RAM not matching i7 low voltage specs.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] w=0&nojs=0

In addition, in yet another thread, we were discussing whether it was OK to get 2 triple-channel and one dual channel kit to fill out 8 slots. Clearly, the reverse is NOT true, don't use 3 dual-channel kits to fill 6 triple channel slots - since if you CAN buy 1.9V dual and CAN'T buy 1.9V triple, you could end up with the wrong voltage quite easily.

Thanks for all the info!