Best DDR3 1066/1333 4GD Dual Channel Kit?

[yolt]

I'm in a little bit of a dilemma. I'm looking for a 4GB kit of DDR3 RAM, preferably 1066/1333 or possibly 1600. I've been looking at various sites for a roundup for 4GB dual channel DDR3 kits and haven't really found much. Can anyone suggest a good kit to purchase for an ASROCK P55 Deluxe mobo, Core i7 860 and a Radeon 5850 video card? I'm looking for something with decent timings (preferably CAS 7) that allows for some overclocking room. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated, or possibly a link to some 4GB kit reviews (all I can find are 6GB kits for x58 motherboards). Thanks for any guidance you can provide!

 

[Blain]

Timings are almost meaningless these days.
Go for the cheapest kit you can find that's rated at the JEDEC DDR3 standard of 1.5v

 

[yolt]

Originally posted by: Blain
Timings are almost meaningless these days.
Go for the cheapest kit you can find that's rated at the JEDEC DDR3 standard of 1.5v

Really...so getting a kit rated at 1.5v is important so there's more overclocking headroom (to increase the voltage to achieve higher speeds)?

I was also looking at what brands are most reliable in terms of errors and failures, etc. Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[Jumpem]

These are what I would get:

G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBRH
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231279

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231276

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Blain is 99% right

The few things that matter to me are the volts, and you do want low volts like 1.5v, & the timings... I was curious myself as I just put together an i7 system. The only thing that I found beneficial and even arguably moot, is that in games for which i was researching for, lower timings raise the fps drops. Which again is the difference between 2-5 fps; hence mootness.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Blain is 99% right

The few things that matter to me are the volts, and you do want low volts like 1.5v, & the timings... I was curious myself as I just put together an i7 system. The only thing that I found beneficial and even arguably moot, is that in games for which i was researching for, lower timings raise the fps drops. Which again is the difference between 2-5 fps; hence mootness.

Intel says 1.65v or less. But I don't seen the point in high latency memory anyway since it is only a $5-10 savings.

 

[Blain]

JEDEC is an association over 50 years old, who's membership are 300 memory manfucatures as well as other tech companies.
They develop standards for the solid-state industry.
The voltage standard developed for DDR3 memory is 1.5v

JEDEC membership includes Intel, OCZ, Patriot, Kingston, Micron, Nanya, Nvidia, AMD as well as many other well known tech producers.

While Intel has a max DDR3 memory voltage spec of 1.65v, they alone are not the arbiter of the DDR3 standard.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Blain is 99% right

Blain is 100 % Correct....

Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

http://www.jedec.org/

Has developed standard test procedures for the semi-conductor industry

DDR3 Dram has Two Recognized standards.

DDR3 1066, and DDR3 1333

The designated DDR3 test voltage is 1.5v

Everything else is non-standard, or "Overclocking".

All the vendors can talk shit.. the truth is in the voltage..

 

[yolt]

Thanks everyone for your responses, they're much appreciated. After some consideration, I think I'm going to go with this kit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231180 (the G.Skill Ripjaws suggested eariler aren't on the GVL list for the ASROCK P55 Deluxe mobo). Any reasons as to why this kit wouldn't be recommended, or comments about my potential choice?

 

[Blain]

QVL should be taken with a grain of salt. They only report memory that has been tested by the MB manufacturer, not all the memory that will function on the MB.
AsRock can't test every kit on the planet for compatibility.

1. G.Skill has plenty of memory kits listed on the AsRock list.
2. The Ripjaw F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH kit is within the JEDEC spec for DDR3.
You should have no problem at all running this G.Skill kit on the AsRock MB. :thumbsup:

 

[yolt]

Originally posted by: Blain
QVL should be taken with a grain of salt. They only report memory that has been tested by the MB manufacturer, not all the memory that will function on the MB.
AsRock can't test every kit on the planet for compatibility.

1. G.Skill has plenty of memory kits listed on the AsRock list.
2. The Ripjaw F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH kit is within the JEDEC spec for DDR3.
You should have no problem at all running this G.Skill kit on the AsRock MB. :thumbsup:

Thanks for your advice Blain! I'll go with the Ripjaw kit you posted, as it's only like $9 more for guaranteed 1.5v operation and a little tighter timings. I'm going to blame you though if I get the kit and it doesn't end up POSTing with it

Thanks again for all your help. I really do appreciate it!