Looking to buy a 2500K, without stock cooler, hopefully without too much abuse as well as 8GB DDR3 @ 1600 with 1.5V.
Hopefully I can take this directly off of one seller, but I'm fine with buying the 2 items separately as well.
Shipping is to 90504 and I can pay via PP balance, also have...
Pretty bad idea, try to stay away from anything promising "unlimited space/bandwidth/etc" as there's usually a clause saying they can kick you out whenever they feel you're using too many resources.
Both memory options have lifetime warranty, and the heatspreader on the mushkin isn't very tall. I guess it depends if you like the Mushkin enough to spend extra on it, because it's not really different aside from looks.
Of course RAM would still overtake any consumer-grade SSD thanks to low access time an higher bandwidth. TBH, with the cost of most SSDs now being close to 1$/GB and being powerful enough, I don't see the need for using RAM drives.
Nobody's making you pay for this stuff; Valve finances additional TF2 development by selling hats&co. and EA finances it by selling DLC and "shortcuts".