DDR4 Buying Advice - Practical Benefits of Paying More

ginjaninja said:
I wonder what % of slower memory can be clocked higher.
I would start a thread for people to report on their memory overclock like there is for cpu overclock...
ie
ram productid, cpu, motherboard, voltages, timings, synthetic benchmarks, practical benchmark(s),
...but with no one saying there is a practical benefit to faster ddr4 memory...its currently pointless.

it would be interesting to understand whether the different products from a manufacturer are actually different....or just binned/tested for higher speeds..and with a functional or pointless 'heat spreader'.
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Thats actually a good idea, in general though Hynix single sided Dimms are the ones to have,
Which i know for certain G.Skills 2666 and 3000 16GB are, i believe the crucials are micron, some give OK results but are not on par with Hynix or samsung.
 
Hynix seem to be doing the most IC.

Managed to get my 2800 Dom Plat kit down quite nicely for 24/7 use. 1.35v

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Nickolp1974 said:
Absolute rubbish, take a look at my screen below, mine cost me £230 gskill 2666 kit, now show me some DDR3 that comes close to that performance for the same price, good luck!

Cpuz is showing correct speed of 3098mhz

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I don't understand what the screenshot is showing. 7min 35sec for 32M SuperPI is fairly average?
 
stulid said:
Good review I just found of Gskill 2666MHz kit - http://www.ocdrift.com/review-g-skill-ripjaws4-ddr4-2666mhz-c15-16gb-memory-kit-f4-2666c15q-16grr/

Nice to see some decent attempt at overclocking done.
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First and foremost, we would like to find a higher memory frequency which is stable for 24/7 operation. The end result was 3000MHz @ 15-15-15-35-2T at a voltage of 1.35V. To confirm its stability we’ve run the AIDA64 Stability Test for around 15 minutes. In this test we didn’t get any error therefore we can conclude that this overclock is fine for daily use.
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lol
 
stulid said:
Good review I just found of Gskill 2666MHz kit - http://www.ocdrift.com/review-g-skill-ripjaws4-ddr4-2666mhz-c15-16gb-memory-kit-f4-2666c15q-16grr/
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So comparing 3000mhz to 2133Mhz.....no improvement in games, 5% winrar improvement ...for 174% of price. (comparing cheapest crucial 2133 to kingston 3000 on ocers).

as you say what would be more interesting is knowing which 2133 modules can eek out a bit of free performance through overclocking....paying more for more mhz doesnt provide a return.

i am presuming that since 3000mhz requires 125 bclck then this benchmark results shows that increased bclck doesnt help much either...
 
That's what I was saying why waste money on a top end kit unless you are into competitive benchmarking. Playing with the timings on the ram will give you some good results.
 
ginjaninja said:
Not that funny..there is value in the ammount of ram for some...for me its running multiple virtual machines..
but most people wont use 8gb i think its true.
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Thats not at all what i said, this is about ddr4. which so far i havent seen any higher density than ddr3 has to offer.
 
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