Which Kit For Daily?
 

Just put together an i5 gamer with a 650 and M3F. Had ordered a set of Patriot sector 5 2000 9-9-9s and they ended up being 9-11-9s that wouldnt run over 1500. My Corsair sticks do fine up to 1800, but they belong in my HTPC.

Im looking for the cheapest option to run 1800Mhz 8-8-8 or better daily, and have the possibilty of doing 2000Mhz with half decent timings. They got to match the look of the board though :laughing:

Was looking at these,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231412
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231410
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145291
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-123-_-Product

I assume the Gskills are the same. Mushkin Sean posted at mushkin forums saying the Ridgebacks would do 2000 7-10-8, but Ive never seen it anywhere. I guess they are the same as the Redlines but bigger heatspreaders. Im leaning towards those cause of the price.

7-10-8 is doable on air.....

7-10-7 if you raise the voltage a little

i don't mind doing the psc...they're actually ok.

but i still prefer kingston high speed rams. anyday...

Mushkin Enhanced Ridgeback

newegg sold out of the ridgebacks, but I found these on Amazon,
http://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-Enhanc...3158714&sr=8-2

like these ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231351

luvin these for $ 65 bucks AR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226103

Thanks Brian. Just what the doctor ordered for my DD update.:thumbsup:

I would rather have 1333 6-6-6 over 1800 8-8-8 anyday. But I am an AMD RAM guy mostly :)

I never noticed much of a differnce on any of them for speed. Once you have enough bandwidth more does not help, only latencies. it is usually easier to get tighter than it is faster IME to lower them.

you should try sp32m for comparison :D

Even with AMD higher speed helps if you NB speed is high enough. I think the NB bottlenecks your mem bandwith untill its double the speed of the ram or something like that. Its been a while, but that sounds right.
I did a comparison a while back, and there was much of a difference with the timings or speed untill I upped the NB to 2600 to ease up on the bottleneck. Fastest Spi32 I got was 1600Mhz 6-6-6-18 with NB at 2600.