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03-18-09
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What would you choose?
Hello,
My computer is in need of an serious upgrade, because of that I'm upgrading to I7 soon. I got most of the parts, except the kind of memory. After a long review hunt, I have narrowed it down to two: Patriot Memory Extreme Performance Viper 6 GB ( 3 x 2 GB ) DIMM 240-pins DDR3 - 1600 MHz CL8-8-8-24 http://images.hardware.info/products/thumbs/060982.jpg & OCZ Platinum Triple Channel 6 GB ( 3 x 2 GB ) DIMM 240-pins DDR3 - 1600 MHz CL7-7-7-24 http://images.hardware.info/products/thumbs/057922.jpg The price of these are the same, where I live about 100. The performance of these kits are roughly identical. I have seen the OCZ up to 1876Mhz and has very low timings. The patriot I could not find a exact clock, but at least the timings are higher than the OCZ. Well the thing is that, the Patriot looks are much better, mainly because of the large blue heat spreader. Because I'm going to make a window in my case, the looks are important to and the patriot excels in that aspect. However, the OCZ probably has better performance. My questions is this: What would you choose, or what would you recommend? And if anybody has these kits, could you tell me your opinion?
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Well you want low timings, not high ones.
The OCZ will perform better then. But both are great sets of RAM, Patriot has always worked flawlessly for me (so has OCZ for that matter) It depends on if you want looks or a bit better performance.
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out of the 2 ocz would be my choice.
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If you're overclocking, go performance, if you're mostly stock, then go for looks. That's what I would recommend to you. :P
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03-19-09
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Thank all of you, ill go with the OCZ then. I was favouring that one as well.
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03-20-09
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Another vote for the OCZ.
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03-20-09
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I would go with the OCZ. I am sure both are good sets. I know OCZ comes with a Lifetime warranty I'm not sure sure about Patriot set.
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03-20-09
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I run OCZ in all my rigs and the builds that I do for people.I havent had a problem with any of them.I have Gold in my rig and runs great.
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