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Paging coyote... You said you have that low profile crucial memory that came free with my motherboard. Is it worth buying another 8gb to replace my corsair vengeance? Ive just left it at 1600 and never needed to overclock it.

Yeah I use it in my test bench.

It is a great stick of RAM for 1 reason.. "Low Voltage". You get 1.6GHz @ 1.35V and easly 2.1GHz @ 1.45V. Meaning it stays pretty cool. I haven't tried pass that because it is on an AM3+ MOBO and the limit is 2.1GHz. With 1150 socket, no telling if 2.6GHz is achievable. I don't it will OC as good as my Samsung Wonder inside the HTPC, but you never know. I really like the low voltage stuff, seems like there is more headroom for us OCers.

As for "worth it", you know as well as any of us that the value in RAM only really reflects on SUPERPi runs.

I say get a 2nd so you could run dual channels and have potential 2.4GHz RAM for essentially $62 bucks.

EDT: Purchase a new MOBO for the test bench, never installed it yet.. will do tonight and bench. (Hopefully)

This post was edited on 6/21/13 at 8:04 pm

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

Central, LA

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 6/21/13 at 10:45 pm to LSU Coyote

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As for "worth it", you know as well as any of us that the value in RAM only really reflects on SUPERPi runs.

RAM is one thing I've not put a whole of testing and research into. I've used high performance memory in customer builds years ago, from the DDR1 and DDR2 era, and never noticed any real-world performance increase, and it seems RAM is getting "easier" to shop for these days with unlocked CPUs, so I don't put a lot of thought into it.

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