RAM? what the hell makes them good:D

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Okay so currently when ever I search for ram what usually comes up is kingston hyperx or vengeance from corsair. From most of the videos I watch on the net logan usually talks about mushkin? I don't understand whats ment by cache don't really care to be entirely honest:P BUT this is where it gets interesting. If I was to lets say buy 1800mhz corsair ram rather than 1600mhz  mushkin would there be such a BIG difference?

 

I do not mind paying a bit extra for what I am getting what I want to know is if there is such a HUGE difference between the 3 brand names that I said above. 

1 more note:P I am trying 2 make a good looking build inside as well as outside, mushkins redline(which is I think the best) doesn't match my scheme but I am willing to sacrifice if there is a substantial difference in performance:) 

 

I am probably the most annoying person on this forum, but I love descussion and learning a little bit more every day:) 

 

Thanks for your patience guys:)

Sorry for posting in the wrong section but I wanted the attention of most you guys and this is where I got it last time:)

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no difference in brands

what you want to look at is

  • size
  • Latency (cas)
  • Speed (Mhz)
  • and voltage

the MOST you would need for gaming is 8GB so thats out of the way, ram 1.65v and under will be cooler

now that we got the simple stuff out of the way here's where shit gets complicated

lower latency (cas) is good, higher Speed (Mhz) is good

they work together to make the rams "memory bandwidth" or how much data it can pump out

High speed is good for editing while low latency is good for games in that sense a 1600Mhz stick of ram with 7-7-7 latency will be faster than a stick of 2000 Mhz with 10-10-10

 

you're probably getting it for games so I would recommend ram that is 1600Mhz and the lowest latency you can get

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a 1600Mhz stick of ram with 7-7-7 latency will be faster than a stick of 2000 Mhz with 10-10-10

It's late. Go to sleep.

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I think someone needs to do their homework, THEN comment

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You want the lowest Cas Latency you can get. Don't go over CL9 (DDR3) unless you're an exXxtremez overclocker who need 2.4GHz modules with CL10/11. After that, you can pay attention to DRAM frequency, voltage, cooling ect.

Comparing CL7 to CL10/11 is like comparing accestimes between SSDs and HHDs.