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There is quite a buzz about the Samsung 30 nm on all the PC sites. It was a hard sell to convince me that these little buggers would do what people were claiming, but I can tell you they are the real deal. They use new 30 nm RAM ICs that run @ 1.35 v and don't make much heat, therefore they don't have or need heatsinks. They are crazy small too, shorter than the DDR retainers on my board if you can believe that. No worries about cooler clearance with the Sams. thumb.gif

the heat sinks look cool though! im using Corsair LP white RAM im my system and havent tried to OC it. im not even sure it can be since ive never tried. ill have to look into this Samsung RAM.
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You can always add heatsinks I guess, I know people have done that with these. You certainly don't need to though, I have run them at extreme OCs and they never even get warm to the touch. I think they actually look real tight. The picture above does not do them justice. They have a really tech, almost jewel-like look to them. If you were concerned about looks about all I would do is peel the sticker off. These things would look absolutely awesome in one of the Darth Vader looking black themed mobos like the Gygabytes or ASRocks.

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Side by side some GSkills with massive heatsinks. Guess which memory pictured here is faster, use less power, and cost less?

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You can always add heatsinks I guess, I know people have done that with these. You certainly don't need to though, I have run them at extreme OCs and they never even get warm to the touch. I think they actually look real tight. The picture above does not do them justice. They have a really tech, almost jewel-like look to them. If you were concerned about looks about all I would do is peel the sticker off. These things would look absolutely awesome in one of the Darth Vader looking black themed mobos like the Gygabytes or ASRocks.
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Side by side some GSkills with massive heatsinks. Guess which memory pictured here is faster, use less power, and cost less?
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even though heat sinks on memory may be useless, they still look cool and do compliment a particular theme like the white ones i have. i chose white to go with my white/black theme. i could care less about speed since there isnt much difference between 1600MT/s and 2400MT/s on an AMD build. apparently its different with Intel though.
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To each his own about the heatsink bling.

I can however assure you that there is a mile of difference between using mediocre speed memory compared to lightning fast memory.
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To each his own about the heatsink bling.
I can however assure you that there is a mile of difference between using mediocre speed memory compared to lightning fast memory.

not on an AMD platform though.

EDIT: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bulldozer-ddr3-overclocking,3209.html
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To each his own about the heatsink bling.
I can however assure you that there is a mile of difference between using mediocre speed memory compared to lightning fast memory.

not on an AMD platform though.

I am running an AMD and I am 100% certain that faster memory makes a big difference. Always has and always will.
If you don't care or can't tell the difference that is your business I guess, but that does not change the fact that faster memory makes games and all programs run faster and smoother.
    
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I am running an AMD and I am 100% certain that faster memory makes a big difference. Always has and always will.
If you don't care or can't tell the difference that is your business I guess, but that does not change the fact that faster memory makes games and all programs run faster and smoother.


Not according to the benchmarks user "the petes" posted but alright.

Higher memory speed does nothing except in certain situations where the memory bandwidth is needed.
     
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if your playing games and you have that SSD for gaming then i would recommend 256 gb or 124 gb ... 64gb goes fast and especially when you have bf3.
Edited by iLikeTurtles - 7/17/12 at 4:51pm
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if your playing games and you have that SSD for gaming then i would recommend 256 gb or 124 gb ... 64gb goes fast and especially when you have bf3.
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I would just get a 64GB SSD for boot and store the games on the HDD

Or buy a small SSD to make a cache, if AMD allows that
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I am running an AMD and I am 100% certain that faster memory makes a big difference. Always has and always will.
If you don't care or can't tell the difference that is your business I guess, but that does not change the fact that faster memory makes games and all programs run faster and smoother.


Not according to the benchmarks user "the petes" posted but alright.

Higher memory speed does nothing except in certain situations where the memory bandwidth is needed.

Memory bandwidth , specifically the bandwidth that can be taken from RAM to the CPU and then back to the RAM (throughput) dictates the maximum speed at which everything on your computer can run. If data does not go from your RAM to the CPU and back again, nothing has been processed. Pretty simple.

I didn't look at whatever reviews were linked and I can tell you that I simply don't care. I test my rig's performance all of the time and you can go through my posts here and see me progress to faster and faster RAM over the last year or so with lots of benchmarks and personal testimonial explaining exactly why I was upgrading my RAM and what exactly the results of adding new/faster/more RAM was. If you are convinced that RAM speed has nothing to do with the speed at which your computer runs programs you are free to do so. I happen to know otherwise and you can see what I am running. thumb.gif

Adding faster RAM is like every other little upgrade. You don't realize Games can run faster and smoother until they do. Then everything else seems slow and you never want to go back. I doubt you would be making these statements if you were running RAM that ranks in the top 10 on the AMD MaxxMemm scoreboard here.

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