Memory Comparison

RockLobster · 14 Jan 2015 at 20:37

Hi Guys

Does anyone know the difference between the memory below apart from the price and one is branded Crucial and the other Ballistix. Is it worth the extra money?

RJC · 14 Jan 2015 at 20:40

The Ballixstix has tighter timings which unless your benchmarking you would probably not notice any real world performance differences.

tamzzy · 14 Jan 2015 at 20:42

ballistix is crucial's premium branded memory.
and no, there's only gonna be minimal difference in performance (CL9 vs CL11)
is that worth £20? probably not
if it were me, i'd get the cheapest memory that you can find

RockLobster · 14 Jan 2015 at 20:44

Thanks going to order two of the above kits (32gb).

RockLobster · 14 Jan 2015 at 20:45

Also I assume it's best to buy as a kit as well like above?

tamzzy · 14 Jan 2015 at 21:07

just fyi, the kits above you listed are SODIMMS - ie: small ram designed for laptops and miniSFF builds, not desktops.
most boards that uses sodimms only support 2 slots. please check your board supports what you intend to get.

and 32gb is usually overkill unless you're doing memory intensive stuff like VM/databases etc

and you also need your os to support 32gb ram. windows home edition doesn't

RockLobster · 14 Jan 2015 at 21:32

It's for a Dell Precision M4800. Will be used for running multiple VMs. SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, etc

tamzzy · 14 Jan 2015 at 22:43

ah. ok, that should work.