Corsair Vengeance ver2.12 or ver8.16?

neo668 · Dec 7, 2011

I got some Vengeance ram today. At the shop they showed me 2 sets of 2x4GB Vengeance ram. Both were DDR3 1600 but one set was ver2.12 and the other was ver8.16. After much deliberation I bought ver8.16 as the number was higher which must mean it was newer.

After checking around now I find that ver2.xx uses Elpida IC and ver8.xx uses Nanya IC. Never heard of Nanya before. Neither have I heard of Elpida. But it seems that Elpida is a much sought after IC for ram.

I haven't opened the box yet and can still change to ver2.12 tomorrow if it is worth it. What do you guys think? Should I change it? Or stick with the ver8.16 I have now? Thank you for any advice.

SeanOMatic · Dec 7, 2011

They will both perform to the advertised specifications and have a lifetime warranty against any defects in workmanship. Knowing this, does it matter which IC's are on there? Nanya, IMO, is just fine.

neo668 · Dec 7, 2011

Thank you Sean. I thought that Elpida might be of better quality and so will OC better. But then that would be a waste on me. I'm going to open the box after I send off this post.

BTW, do you really work for OCZ? I wish there were more people like you on the OCZ Forums.

Thanks again Sean.

andremitake · Jan 6, 2012

I've got a similar problem. I bought two sticks of memory, but each came with different versions 2.12 and 8.16. Can I use both at the same time?

neo668 · Jan 6, 2012

Hi Andre.

I saw the thread you started on the Corsair Forum. I replied to your post informing you that different version numbers meant the chips used were from different chip manufacturers. And you know what. They censored (deleted) my post. I wonder why?

That was my second post that got censored and I never said anything critical about Corsair or their products. Corsair loves to censor, don't they?

BTW, can you return 1 stick so that you will have 2 sticks of the same version? I think that would be a better solution. With 2 different versions you have 2 sets of chips that were manufactured differently. This might lead to compatibility problems.

Knufire · Jan 7, 2012

neo668 said:
Thank you Sean. I thought that Elpida might be of better quality and so will OC better. But then that would be a waste on me. I'm going to open the box after I send off this post.

BTW, do you really work for OCZ? I wish there were more people like you on the OCZ Forums.

Thanks again Sean.

He does, a couple other companies have reps that check around here at OCF every once in a while.

andremitake · Jan 7, 2012

hahahahaha neo668, no problems. I appreciate the help because I do not know much about informatics, as I am building a new configuration, I'm researching a lot and I ended up running into this problem of the corsair. Anyway, I'll test them, and if by chance there is a problem I post here. Thank you again.

andremitake · Jan 7, 2012

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andremitake · Feb 15, 2012

Hello, I tested the system after a long time, and version 8.16 had memory problems and when I use the two ends up creating conflicts and memory dump. Using only the version 2.12 I can use my system normally, thank you for attention.

neo668 · Feb 15, 2012

FYI. With V8.xx (Nanya chips) I could not run my system at 1600. I RMA'd them and got V5.xx (Hynix chips) in return. They now run excellently at 1600 without any problems.

ivanlabrie · Feb 15, 2012

neo668 said:
FYI. With V8.xx (Nanya chips) I could not run my system at 1600. I RMA'd them and got V5.xx (Hynix chips) in return. They now run excellently at 1600 without any problems.

Hynix is great normally...
I used to have some generic Hynix sticks that were rated as ddr400 but could do ddr500 without touching vdimm...and also I could tighten timings a lot without breaking a sweat.

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