Corsair H005

[wlucas]

RAM

I'd recommend as I am sure ED would agree too would be Seasonic or Corsair for PSUs.

As for the RAM, it might be out of stock from newegg and a 3rd party retailer could be selling it at a higher price. Dominator are the better of the two and Platinum is the top of the line.

I really appreciate the eduction on RAM. That said, how much of a performance difference do you think there is between the Vengeance and Platinum lines? How much does the speed and latency of a particular RAM impact the performance of a computer and finally, is lower latency settings better than higher ones; for instance:

9-9-9-9-8
vs
10-10-9-9-9

 

[NeonCancerCandy]

lower numbers = better at the same clock speed.

so 9-9-9-8 at 1600 will be faster than 10-10-9-9 at 1600

 

[GTXJackBauer]

What candy said is correct and the lower the CAS Latency the better for overclocking/gaming if I recall correctly.

 

[BruceUSA]

I know you said you love the look of the Alienware case. But seriously, you can built a high end custom watercooled pc with a nice case instead. Just keep the the Alienware case sit right next to the high end built. So, you can always stare at the Alienware when your heart desired. I know this is sound silly but this what in my mind.

 

[trents]

In most applications higher RAM frequency and lower timings make very little performance difference. Don't waste money on high speed, low latency ram.

I realize this is a little dated but I see nothing more recent to make these testing results invalid. Over and over again I read these same kind of results when actual testing is done of high frequency or low latency RAM: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Breaking-the-Hype-of-High-Frequency-RAM-142/. The large cache sizes of modern CPUs just render expensive system RAM fairly useless.

In my own benchmarking experience I have found that frequencies above 1600 or low latencies have practically no impact.

 

[EarthDog]

In most applications higher RAM frequency and lower timings make very little performance difference. Don't waste money on high speed, low latency ram.

I realize this is a little dated but I see nothing more recent to make these testing results invalid. Over and over again I read these same kind of results when actual testing is done of high frequency or low latency RAM: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Breaking-the-Hype-of-High-Frequency-RAM-142/. The large cache sizes of modern CPUs just render expensive system RAM fairly useless.

In my own benchmarking experience I have found that frequencies above 1600 or low latencies have practically no impact.

Something a bit more detailed...the conclusion is more or less the same (there are some 'gotcha's in there).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell

There are still appreciable gains in 1600-2133... its just if the money spent is worth it to the owner.

 

[trents]

If I was doing a lot of file compression I would care.