DDR3 2133 to DDR3 2400. Someone talk me out of buying this memory

[Don Karnage]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231587

I've been eyeing it up all day

 

[God Mode]

I'd do it. There will always be a naysayer but there will always be a more extreme naysayer that says nay to the original naysayer.

 

[Smoblikat]

I'd do it. There will always be a naysayer but there will always be a more extreme naysayer that says nay to the original naysayer.

And that would be me. I say go for it with the force of a thousand suns. DDR3 2400 8gb for 100$ youd have to be crazy not to jump on that, run it at 2133 9-9-9-28 BOOM.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Its pretty easy not to buy it:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3

 

[LagunaX]

Yo D.K.
Just get the Samsung 30nm for $48/pair instead.
It should be able to do what that ram does at 1.6v and half the price:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Samsung/MV-3V4G3/6.html

Post 511:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...le-of-2400MHz.-Perfect-for-SFF-builds./page21

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159320

And btw there isn't any significant AIDA64 difference between 2133 9-9-9 and 2133 9-10-10

 

[VirtualLarry]

Heatspreaders are too tall, don't bother.

 

[jhansman]

I dunno, unless you absolutely need whatever speed boost you going to get, you might be better served taking that C note and investing it in, oh say, another SSD.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Its pretty easy not to buy it:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3

"The sweet spot appears to be at DDR3-1600, where you will see a minor performance increase over DDR3-1333 with only a slight increase in cost. The performance increase gained by going up to DDR3-1866 or DDR3-2133 isn't nearly as pronounced.... ....Even though there's merely a $34 price difference between the fastest and slowest memory tested today, I still don't believe there's any value in the more expensive memory kits on the Sandy Bridge platform."

 

[LagunaX]

"The sweet spot appears to be at DDR3-1600, where you will see a minor performance increase over DDR3-1333 with only a slight increase in cost. The performance increase gained by going up to DDR3-1866 or DDR3-2133 isn't nearly as pronounced.... ....Even though there's merely a $34 price difference between the fastest and slowest memory tested today, I still don't believe there's any value in the more expensive memory kits on the Sandy Bridge platform."

It's worth it at 1866 and 2133 with a SSD just to see the bootup Windows flag only get to half way forming before moving on :sneaky:

 

[bunnyfubbles]

another vouch for the Samsung lowprofile stuff

not sure why anyone would go for sheer speed unless they're actually in to trying to break benchmark records, otherwise seems like a waste of money

excessive speed on memory hasn't really mattered since the memory controller moved onto the CPU, and now even less that CPUs are getting unlocked multis for overclocking