Need help weighing pros and cons of these two RAM choices

Digital_Cowboy · 08-27-08, 10:50 AM

I'm torn between two different ram choices for my computer.

I have either 2 x 2gb Corsair Dominator pc8500 or 4 x 1gb OCZ Reaper heatpipe pc9200. Please offer opinions.

meionm · 08-27-08, 10:59 AM

With corsair you get option of going to 8gb in the future. Ocz being faster but outside of synthetic benchmarks you probably won't see difference between pc8500 and pc9200. Some boards don't like certain memories in 4 slot config.

Digital_Cowboy · 08-27-08, 11:15 AM

Ok, Thanks. What do you think of the Dominator series?

meionm · 08-27-08, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Cowboy

Ok, Thanks. What do you think of the Dominator series?

I do own them but I am not impressed but should I. They don't really OC well, my set won't go over 550 without erroring in memtest(only tried voltage upto 2.2v). So, I am running it pretty much stock 535 5-5-4-14, 2t, 2.0V (rated stock is 533 5-5-5-15 2.1v). Maybe it's a mobo or some setting that limits them but I am happy with what I got and won't waste my time to find out if they can do more or not.

08-27-08, 10:50 AM	Thread Starter #1
Digital_Cowboy Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: 192.168.1.1	Need help weighing pros and cons of these two RAM choices I'm torn between two different ram choices for my computer. I have either 2 x 2gb Corsair Dominator pc8500 or 4 x 1gb OCZ Reaper heatpipe pc9200. Please offer opinions. __________________ Core I7 970 @ 3.6GHZ \| Asus Rampage III Formula \| 12GB Patriot DDR3 \| EVGA GTX 580 SC \| OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB \| PCP&C Silencer 940 \| Hyper 212+ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHZ \| Gigabyte X38-DQ6 \| 8GB DDR2 \| 2 x ATI 4870 1gb in Crossfire \| 2 x 2tb \| PCP&C 940 Silencer \| Cooler Master Cosmos \| hyper 212+
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08-27-08, 10:59 AM	#2
meionm Member Join Date: Mar 2004	With corsair you get option of going to 8gb in the future. Ocz being faster but outside of synthetic benchmarks you probably won't see difference between pc8500 and pc9200. Some boards don't like certain memories in 4 slot config.
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08-27-08, 11:15 AM	Thread Starter #3
Digital_Cowboy Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: 192.168.1.1	Ok, Thanks. What do you think of the Dominator series? __________________ Core I7 970 @ 3.6GHZ \| Asus Rampage III Formula \| 12GB Patriot DDR3 \| EVGA GTX 580 SC \| OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB \| PCP&C Silencer 940 \| Hyper 212+ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHZ \| Gigabyte X38-DQ6 \| 8GB DDR2 \| 2 x ATI 4870 1gb in Crossfire \| 2 x 2tb \| PCP&C 940 Silencer \| Cooler Master Cosmos \| hyper 212+
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