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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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Penicilyn
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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BADFASTBUSA
out of the 2 ocz would be my choice.
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B
If you're overclocking, go performance, if you're mostly stock, then go for looks. That's what I would recommend to you.
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linskingdom
The OCZ ram is the way to go. The Patriot is fine but doesn't work that well for me.
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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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Another vote for the OCZ.

They have better stock timings and giant heatspreaders are more of a liability than an asset on low voltage DDR3. The DIMM slots on many i7 boards are close to the CPU so a large heatspreader can often interfere with tower coolers and 38mm thick fans.
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Z
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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ducrider
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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