I was wondering, any reason for grabbing SLI RAM?
Well, yeah. At first I thought the OCZ wasn't that good and the G.Skill a lot better and headed for the G.Skill. Due to living in Australia I can't order from newegg which excluded the G.Skill option pretty much (didn't know another place int he US to buy G.Skill and on ebay it was a lot more expensive than the OCZ), so I headed for the OCZ and asked in several forums about compatibility. The OCZ forum support service gave me a green light and I just got pretty good feedback about the OCZ RAM from several members (including this forum).
That's why I thought to get the OCZ RAM. SLI ready, because it's faster than the Vista upgrade edition on the one hand and still a lot cheaper than the Reaper series. I'm running a P35 board (Abit IP35pro), so the SLI EPP feature is definitely _not_ the reason
Without saying that the G.Skill might be great RAM, it still has some drawbacks like looser stock timings and high stock temperature/voltage. That's what ppl told me and the stock voltage is 2.1-2.2 afaik.
OCZ runs a lot cooler.
All in all the G.Skill might be more potent, but I don't need crazy OC capabilities, that's why I'm going for OCZ. And I mean, OCZ has always been great RAM, hasn't it?
ghost_recon88: Yeah, would be silly to run a M$ 32bit System with 8GB. Everybody who throws 8GB of RAM into his/her system should know
that...
Alternatively, run Linux and you don't even have to think about the OS architecture.
