Memory advice GA-880gm-usb3 1055t

[msholden]

I've got 4gb of 10666 memory in my system now, and was thinking of going to 8gb, and speeding up the memory in the hopes of getting a little more performance. My boot drive is a 64gb ssd. I run Win 7 64 Ultimate.

I don't play games, but I typically have photoshop, pagemaker (an old desktop publishing program) and a few dozen browser windows running.

Right now it looks like I can buy mushkin 8gb pc-12800 cl8 memory for about $55. I could save a few bucks by going for CL9.

For a few bucks extra I could go with PC-14900.

What would you buy, and why?

 

[o1die]

Newegg has some cl9 patriot 8 gb kits for $36, last time I checked. CL9 ram isn't that much slower than CL8, and many boards default to this setting anyway. I use patriot and gskill cl9 ram, and it's plenty fast.

 

[sonexpc]

Your motherboard have 4 Slot .... do you have 2x2GB now or 1x4GB now..

if you have 2x2GB now and you plan for running dual channel then you can order 2x2GB more to make total 8GB ( but no more upgarde) or 2x4GB to make (12GB total)

if you have 1x4GB then just order one of 1x4GB match what you have to make it running dual channel... and you have 2 slot open to upgarde in future..

for upgrade better upgrade to the same specification with your old memory...

what you have now? Brand and model number?

 

[msholden]

I currently have 4 Crucial 1GB PC10600 DDR3 1333MHz chips. But since I'm looking to go for faster ones, I'll be taking them out of the system.

 

[sonexpc]

I will suggest this 2x8GB HyperX 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104246

There may be some cheaper ... but this is what we regular use.

 

[msholden]

Thanks - here's one that's $5 more but CL8 instead of CL9.

< http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226295&cm_mmc=CNETFindMEMUS-_-20-226-295-_-na-_-na >

I'll admit to ignorance of the Mushkin brand and any sense of what the CL difference means in terms of performance. Quality/reliability is important.

Any thoughts?

 

[sonexpc]

Column Address Strobe (CAS) latency, or CL, is the delay time between the moment a memory controller tells the memory module to access a particular memory column on a RAM memory module, and the moment the data from given array location is available on the module's output pins. In general, the lower the CAS latency, the better.

But I really don't see that much different in general use on nowadays computing..... I remember Most people looking for lower CL in DDR age....and at that time really make the different...

For your situation... I don't you can feel any different in between two...

 

[msholden]

Best answer selected by msholden.

 

[nikorr]

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