Memory Question

I think the timings are to lose to be any gain over the Team RAM at 2600MHz C10, in fact performance may be slower.

If you are the type of person that just wants to set a XMP profile and literally fit and forget instead of trying to improve the timings manually yourself within the BIOS, then the Team RAM I think will be better.

When 8Pack had that SuperPI competition to win a Haswell setup, my best result was with a Team 2400 C9 kit, I had also borrowed a Adata gaming kit at 2600Mhz C12 and it was not as good "straight out of the box" with just XMP used on both.
 
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my cpu is bare die mounted, i think i would consider myself a tweaker ;)

but im also not crazy about spending over £200 on 8gb.

i understand what you are saying regarding the timings vs speed though.. choices choices..
 
Thats what I think makes that Team RAM so nice, its a good combination of MHz+timings out of the box.

I also think Team use nicely binned IC's (Hynix I think on that 2600Mhx kit).
 
basically what i was going to do, is put this new ram in my main pc. and put the green into another pc im currently building.

the choices i had thought of were,

that 2666c11 16gb @ £180
or the 2800c12 8gb @ £180

i will have to check the teamgroups out as well.

would ideally like 3000 ram from some kit if possible. but id be happy with 2800.

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ok ive just noticed that you had two kits listed, thats much nicer!! ;)
 
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The really fast RAM you see with 2933-3000Mhz ratings seem to use Hynix MFR chips but are single sided dimms, actual performance is not as good as dual sided dimms.

Very good info here - http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=80767

Its good if you want to show off that you can do 3000Mhz+


Another good RAM kit is this (266Mhz C10) - http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f3-2666c10d-8gtxd


Ive been doing some serious studying about RAM in the past week or so as I am on the hunt for something nice too (the Adata and Team RAM I had have gone back to their owners).
 
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hmm thanks for that, i had no idea at all that the actual speed would be lower.. crazy

so er, how do we know if the sets we are buying have this hyinx mfr? i take it that the ones above aren't?

thanks again
 
changed my perspective on it all quite a lot.

how pointless! well i guess unless you like large mhz numbers without the accompanying performance :/
 
Thats it exactly, over at HwBot there are rankings for "fastest RAM achieved" so unless thats your bag, then don't bother, a good combination of speed+timings is where it's at for real world performance.
 
ok, now im worried about this single sided thing.

seems neither the team nor avexir actually state which they are..?

seems a bit of a minefield.
 
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Tell me about it.

But when I have a spare £100+ or so, I think for me the Team 2600MHzC10 or Gskill tridentX 2666MHzC10 is the one for me.
 
;)

ok from some research it seems that 2666c11 are single sided.

supposedly 2400c9 2600c10 and 2666c10 are all the same (samsung) chips binned and priced differently.. (double sided sammy)

which means the 2666c10 version which costs double the one you listed, is just the same thing but a bit.. better. not sure that makes it worth double.

source

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and it looks like you were right, 2800c12 are hyinx. not sure if single sided hyinx but still..
 
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