G.skill or OCZ, slight timing Diff, 4gig ddr2 800, which one?

[Spumpkin]

So i'm trying to decide which ram for my new system, I'm going to have a q6600 G0 (but i dont plan to over clock really, just like less heat and less power). maybe a GTS 8800 320meg and p5k ASUS mobo, and i want 4 gigs of ram for windows vista x64. I want 2 gig sticks becuase i want the option to upgrade to 8 gigs in the future, so the motherboard has 4 slots.. Hence why i kinda dont wana do 4 1gig sticks..

(bad idea?)

So at first i wanted the G.skill 4 gig kit from newegg here:

then they raised their price from 215 to 240 now (i know 10$ rebate)..
but the cas is 5-5-5-15

Then i found this:
http://www.clubit.com/product_...l.cfm?itemno=CA4308050
for considerably less, different brand and cas is 5-6-6-18

and now i'm not sure, is it worth it to save around 30 dollars to go with the OCZ brand
over G.skill and get slightly worse timings? or should i spring the extra bit and get the better timings? I'm not an overclocker and if i did ever overclock it wouldn't be hard core.. I've been told i might be able to bump the q6600 up 200-300 mhz on its stock cooling fan, so i might do that eventually.. but for now i'd just run things at regular speeds. I am a gamer, I do plan on playing crysis, and ut 3, and alan wake, and play tons of wow.. But i'm not a hard core 'must be the top of the 3d mark 200x' type..

What is your guyses opinions?

 

[JustaGeek]

After a few months you will keep wondering "what would it be if I got the RAM with better timings", and $30 will seem like nothing.

Go with better timings - unless money is real tight.

 

[Spumpkin]

thats kind of what i was thinking, but i wasn't sure if it would be a "You'd gain 1/10th of a milisecond and you'll never know the difference with the type of machine your building and the fact that you dont expect to OC much"

type of answer OR possible someone would chime in about OCZ being better or worse than
g.skill..

 

[lopri]

I definitely understand your concern because I had the similar dilemma. Basically there wasn't (still isn't?) much known about the ICs being used in these 2GB sticks. I was lucked out with cheapo Infineon sticks that scales excellently for the price ($87? I think) but information on 2GB sticks are still scarce. And memory vendors as well as reviewers are busy touting DDR3 (1GB sticks at that), when the reality is that more and more users are looking for DDR2 sticks for 4GB configuration.

Said that, I think you'll be fine with any of the two brands. Rather than frequency/timings, I'd suggest you go with the brands that you're more comfortable with. (customer service comes to mind first)

 

[cmdrdredd]

I'm gonna ask over at the GSkill forum at XS and see what ICs they use for these.

The sticks are here http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=146781

According to GSkill they used Micron Rev E which do not overclock as well, but have less heat.