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turismo29

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I've narrowed down my choices. Just state which one you like more and why. My price range is $40-70 for 2x2gb. I'm leaning towards the g skill PI. I know how to manually set to 4-4-4-12 timing on the g skill. But not sure if the lower timing is worth the extra $25-30 over the muskin and corsair. I play COD4 and getting Warhead soon.

G skill
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209

Muskin
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146692
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146731

Corsair
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
 
turismo29 said:
I've narrowed down my choices. Just state which one you like more and why. My price range is $40-70 for 2x2gb. I'm leaning towards the g skill PI. I know how to manually set to 4-4-4-12 timing on the g skill. But not sure if the lower timing is worth the extra $25-30 over the muskin and corsair. I play COD4 and getting Warhead soon.

G skill
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209

Muskin
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146692
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146731

Corsair
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184
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Lower timings are not worth it on an Intel platform for gaming, as the real world gains are miniscule, due to Intel's larger caches and superb pre-fecthing in the CPU.
 
Atech said:
Lower timings are not worth it on an Intel platform for gaming, as the real world gains are miniscule, due to Intel's larger caches and superb pre-fecthing in the CPU.
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so I guess i should save my cash and go with the muskin or corsair xms?
 
Stay away from Crucial and Patriot. Corsair, Mushkin and G.Skill are my favorites. They're also the favorites on the ncix.com forums, in particular Mushkin.
 
Mehen said:
Stay away from Crucial and Patriot. Corsair, Mushkin and G.Skill are my favorites. They're also the favorites on the ncix.com forums, in particular Mushkin.
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Patriot actually has very quality ram which ranks up there in terms of overclocking. Not to mention that they have good customer service.
 
+1 to patriot, They are really nice ram for their price. I have 2 of there 2x2gb kits, one in my gamer and htpc. I've never had trouble with them so I don't know about customer service since I have never had to contacted them:D.
 
I use the corsair quite frequently. I like the low timings and the black heatsinks look very nice.
 
This is what I use. Works like a champ.

I would stay away from Crucial at this time. I was using Balistix before my G.Skill. I think I've replaced the sticks 4x already. Crucial's service is first rate. Great company to deal with.
 
I'm surprised everyone is reporting so many problems with crucial, I've been using it exclusively for the last 2 years or so, and I've never had a problem. My 10th anniversary sticks and my ballistix tracers have worked flawlessly and I oc them pretty high. I know they're pretty sensitive to being over-volted, which seems to be the cluprit behind most of the failures.


Anyways, back to the original question, I like all three of those brands. I've used each of them at some point over the years and never had a problem. If I had to choose one, I'd probably go with Corsair, just because you can pretty much never go wrong with them. They're like the Honda of memory, you just know it's going to work right.
 
That Corsair ram is very good (and the price also), but for the exact same price, you can have the Patriot ram I linked to which is 4-4-4-12 and may be better at overclocking.
 
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