Ram ram ram, the pc builders nightmare!!!!
I have found over many years of looking at ram, that top brand ram ie corsair, kingston, crucial, geil, Gskill, patriot, ect ect sell many kits but like anything else you get what you pay for, most of the ram on the sticks are samsung or hynix all binned at diffrent speeds and sold on to the likes of kingston, corsair ect to be built into specific kits offering certain speeds and timings.
all the ram sold in kits is from previously binned IC's (ie runs at 1600mhz) lots, now if you produce 1 million ram chips and you randomly test and the speed is 1600 at 9.9.9.9.22 1t there's no way all of that million will run that speed. some will fail, some will go tighter, company's will selective bin all high end IC's for top dollar ram. yet we have Samsung green which loves the volts and can reach great speeds cheap as chips, but do all the sticks manage the same speeds? some are no doubt better than others.
this is what you pay for in high price ram, its already been tested and binned to run high speed. Samsung green can be a lottery did you get 2 good sticks or did you get 2 that run as stated or higher but not as fast as your mates 2 sticks of the same stuff from the last batch!
some makers of ram claim higher speeds, but what board did they test it on? what bios? it becomes yet another lottery.
anyone remember BH-5 awwwsome stuff loved volts, tight timings yet it took me 4 sets to find 1 set that would go beyond expectations. just like binned CPU's guaranteed to overclock to 4.6g will be higher in price, same goes for high speed ram, the specially binned stuff comes at a high price cause its pre tested. but even then you do get failures. and that where a reputable company like corsair and others will rma and exchange the faulty ram.
unlike abudabu ram with gold heat spreaders, flashing lights and claiming massive speeds on the well know auction site, yet i cant find the manufactures web site mmmmm lol
if it dont work for you at the claimed speeds send it back! simples!
