Copie Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Im looking at upgrading my ram to some new high speed sticks to see if i can get some higher clocks on the i7 920. I currently have the triple 3x2gb corsair xms3 1600mhz sticks rated at 9-9-9-24 (yeah i know was being cheap when i brought them) So im thinking of purchasing either Corsair GT 1866mhz C7 OCZ reaper 2000mhz C9 Sticks The main difference is the 2000mhz sticks are 9-9-9-30 ratings and the corsair are 7-8-7-20 ratings. The cooling fans that come with the Corsair is no real biggie as i have plenty of airflow over that region of the motherboard. Any thoughts inputs or suggestions to other sticks is more then welcome. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgv115 Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 I'm no expert on RAM but performance wise there is not much difference between 1600mhz and 2000mhz RAM. tighter timing 1600mhz RAM even beats 2000mhz looser timing RAM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copie Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I'm no expert on RAM but performance wise there is not much difference between 1600mhz and 2000mhz RAM. tighter timing 1600mhz RAM even beats 2000mhz looser timing RAM. Yeah that was my understanding as well, however i think the ram is limiting from pushing my Stable overclock further. That and my current sticks are fairly loose on the timings compared to the GT sticks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zertz Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Corsair's GT will surely clock at 2000 MHz, but the question is... can your motherboard and processor's IMC handle it? Not every board/CPU can. Did you try changing the memory divider to get around RAM limitations? Maybe you've just hit the ceiling This is the OCZ kit you want to compare to the Dominator GT btw. Reaper's are more like standard Dominator's Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copie Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Corsair's GT will surely clock at 2000 MHz, but the question is... can your motherboard and processor's IMC handle it? Not every board/CPU can. Did you try changing the memory divider to get around RAM limitations? Maybe you've just hit the ceiling This is the OCZ kit you want to compare to the Dominator GT btw. Reaper's are more like standard Dominator's Cheers for that, Yeah im pretty sure i have not hit the wall on the cpu im thinking i can squeeze another couple of hundred out of it. Yeah ive fiddled with the divider with no real gains. The board is a p6t and from what i can gather it will handle 1866/2000 sticks. next upgrade is a evga classified board and a 975 so thats why im aiming straight up at top shelf ram, as it will carry over when i get the next lot of goodies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zertz Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 If you go with a Classified/975 then you're set Corsair's GT will look awesome on the Classified! Is that the best price you can get in Australia? It's expensive as hell... NewEgg as the higher end GT's for cheaper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copie Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 If you go with a Classified/975 then you're set Corsair's GT will look awesome on the Classified! Is that the best price you can get in Australia? It's expensive as hell... NewEgg as the higher end GT's for cheaper I can get them about 15 bucks cheaper on another site but will cost more to ship. Its a shame that most US sites wont ship to aus or i would get it direct from there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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