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Tricyclthief

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Building a P8P67 PRO with i5-2500k for a mild OC to start. Ive heard good and bad about both G.skill and corsair DDR3 1600s. Heres what im looking at buying right now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314&Tpk=F3-12800CL9D-8GBrL

Can anyone suggest an alternative that will perform the exact same but cheaper? $60 is a pretty good deal for 8gb of 1600s 1.5v just looking for any other options that will perform the same or better for cheaper. Thanks.
 
Get DDR3, 1333 9-9-9-24, 1.5V, from Crucial/Kingston/Corsair/Mushkin/your preferred brand; look for Micron/Hynix/Elpida chips.

(1600 won't give you any more performance, though those 1600 1.5V kits use nice Hynix chips :)
 
Is it that small of a performance boost to not spend like $10-$20 more to have 1600 over 1333?
 
You will not notice any difference between daily tasks of surfing the web, playing games, etc especially with 8gigs. I personally would still go with G.Skill 1600 though.
 
Tricyclthief said:
Is it that small of a performance boost to not spend like $10-$20 more to have 1600 over 1333?
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MAYBE 2-3% when you have a really fast SSD array (so you aren't limited by that) and a 5GHz i7 2600K. Just MAYBE. In only a couple workloads.

tl;dr: get 1333, anything faster isn't worth it, maybe just for looks (Corsair Vengeance looks nice).
 
There's a few articles outlining how RAM speed really doesn't make too much of a difference with Sandy Bridge. Overall, get what you can afford and have a need for. If you want higher benchmark scores, faster RAM will be better.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/sandy-bridge-ddr3.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/2011/01/11/the-best-memory-for-sandy-bridge/1
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20377

Hope that helps.

The XbitLabs review has overclocked results as well so that should help even further.
 
Any suggestions on these Team Elite 8GB ? Anyone know of any deals around that price? If im going if 1333 Id like not to pay much over $40 for 8gb. since I can get G.skill for like $55 1600 8GB.
 
I doubt you could really go wrong with either kit. Both probably use the same ICs and both have a lifetime warranty attached.
 
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