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Audioaficionado

Audioaficionado

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I've been out of the loop on the latest and greatest memory. I'm looking at Z97 i7 Haswell K series. I greatly prefer G Skill kits from my years of past experience.

Z99 looks intriguing, but the 8 core processor is over a kilo buck. Heck if I needed 16 threads, I'd just build a 4P workstation.
 
Thanx Neb

I was considering this platform combo: (if it makes any difference)

ASRock Z97 Extreme6

Intel Core i7-4790K

I'd also like to max the memory @4x8GB modules.

Support for Intel XMP necessary or advantageous?

Trade off: Speed vs tight timings?
 
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I've been doing Trident vs Ripjaws vs Sniper Google searches. It seems the Trident X is the newest line. Was designed for IB, but came out with Haswell. They all are pretty good. Trident is taller, but the HS is removable if the CPU cooler overhangs the memory slots, but still taller than the others even after HS removal.

So what's the performance sweet spot for speed vs timings?
 
I should probably move this thread over to memory, but I'll leave a redirect for more traffic.
 
Audioaficionado, in most cases G. Skill sticks whether they're Tridents, Snipers, Ares or Ripjaws if they have the same timings and Mhz will likely be the equal in performance. You may find if overclocking, one set may Oc better then another due to being either double sided or a better Ic or just luck of the silicon lottery, but in the real world you're likely not going to notice the difference. Additionally, going with another brand with like timings will also be very close to the same performance.
 
G.Skill TridentX 16GB ( 2x8GB ) DDR3-2133 9-11-11-31 1.60V - F3-2133C9D-16GTX looks like a good overall performance balance of S vs T based on Woomack's review.

Yeah, there's always the Si lottery to consider when overclocking.
 
Should be good, always try and stick with G.Skill my self for no other reason than that's what I've used since my DDR500 set and had zero issues. Really aside from benchmarking and I'm sure there's some other specialized situations memory is memory. I just went from 4x2 Ripjaws 1600 9-9-9-24 to 2x8 Tridents 2400 10-12-12-31 and if some one switched the old ones back in I'd never notice.
 
Audioaficionado said:
G.Skill TridentX 16GB ( 2x8GB ) DDR3-2133 9-11-11-31 1.60V - F3-2133C9D-16GTX looks like a good overall performance balance of S vs T based on Woomack's review.

Yeah, there's always the Si lottery to consider when overclocking.
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I have them and they're good sticks but tough to find right now.
 
TridentX 1600 CL7 , 1866 CL8 , 2133 CL9 and 2400 CL10 are on about the same IC. All of them will probably work without issues at 2133 9-11-11 1.50-1.60V. Some won't run at 2400. Price of these kits should be similar.
TridentX are the only ( 100% ) Samsung based kits on the market. What means tight timings and slightly higher overall performance.

RipjawsZ or RipjawsX are often on Hynix IC but should also perform good.

TridentX 32GB kits:
1866: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231624
2400: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231590
both in the same price

RipjawsX 32GB kit:
2133: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231572

RipjawsZ 32GB kit:
2400: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231522

TridentX in 2x8GB kits
1866: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231623
2133: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231617
2400: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231589

I see that all of above are available but 32GB TridentX 2400 looks best looking at the price.
 
I'd been looking at this kit myself.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231571

It seems like the best price/performance ratio of any kit I've seen in a 2133MHz kit at CL9. It was cheaper than some 1866MHz kits at the same CAS Latency when I first found them.

I guess it's the smaller version of a kit woomack mentioned above:

"RipjawsX 32GB kit:
2133: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231572"

I've read some reviews on memory speed/memory timing combinations and it seemed like the sweet spot in most reviews was either 1866MHz (CL8 or CL9, CL7 in rare occasions) or 2133MHz (CL9 or CL10, lower than CL9 doesn't seem to exist in 2133 kits as a stock setting), with not much gain to be had in FPS when gaming or overall system performance with 2400MHz or greater.
 
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