Hi guys.
It's finally this week that I decide which RAM I'll be buying.
Now it's between G.Skill PI PC2-6400 and Kingston HyperX PC2-8500. I would buy 2 kits for a total of 8 GB.
Both are at the same price. Newegg "seems" to have HyperX in stock.... I hope they will still have this kit in stock tomorrow...
Anyways, here is a little summary of both kits :
Kingston is 1066
G.Skill is 800
Kingston runs at 2.2v
G.Skill runs at 1.8v
Both has a good heatspreader, but there is a little advantage to the G.Skill.
Both has the same bandwidth at the same clock speeds.
Reliability and Kingston's legendary stability or lower voltage and heat ( and easier to manage for the northbridge ) of G.SKill ?
Note that I plan to overclock my CPU on a 450x9 bus configuration to eventually hit the 4 GHz. The G.Skill can overclock to 450 MHz without any problem.
My motherboard : Asus Technologies Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula / Intel X38 Express Chipset / ICH9R Southbridge / Intel 45nm Processors Ready
What's your point of view ??? Here is a review comparing the HyperX and the G.Skill : http://www.bigbruin.com/2008/gskillpi6400_5
Thank you very much.
Ghost.26
It's finally this week that I decide which RAM I'll be buying.
Now it's between G.Skill PI PC2-6400 and Kingston HyperX PC2-8500. I would buy 2 kits for a total of 8 GB.
Both are at the same price. Newegg "seems" to have HyperX in stock.... I hope they will still have this kit in stock tomorrow...
Anyways, here is a little summary of both kits :
Kingston is 1066
G.Skill is 800
Kingston runs at 2.2v
G.Skill runs at 1.8v
Both has a good heatspreader, but there is a little advantage to the G.Skill.
Both has the same bandwidth at the same clock speeds.
Reliability and Kingston's legendary stability or lower voltage and heat ( and easier to manage for the northbridge ) of G.SKill ?
Note that I plan to overclock my CPU on a 450x9 bus configuration to eventually hit the 4 GHz. The G.Skill can overclock to 450 MHz without any problem.
My motherboard : Asus Technologies Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula / Intel X38 Express Chipset / ICH9R Southbridge / Intel 45nm Processors Ready
What's your point of view ??? Here is a review comparing the HyperX and the G.Skill : http://www.bigbruin.com/2008/gskillpi6400_5
Thank you very much.
Ghost.26
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