DDR2 1066 5-5-5-15 VS. DDR2 800 3-3-3-8

DDD2 1066 5-5-5-15 (Corsair) Or DDR2 3-3-3-8 (GeIL)

  • Corsair DDR2 1066 5-5-5-15

    Votes: 13 76.5%

  • GeIL DDR2 800 3-3-3-8

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
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The Doc

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What would be the better buy to pair with a P965 motherboard? DDR2 1066 w/ 5-5-515 timings or DD2 800 with 3-3-3-8 timings? The two memory kits that I'm looking at are as follows:

Corsair Dominator DD2 1066 5-5-5-15 $388
GeIL DD2 800 3-3-3-8 $449

Once again, which kit would be the best to pair with a P965 motherboard?
 
Go with the Corsair, it's cheaper, and will give you more overclocking headroom while staying within it's own spec It might have looser timings, but it won't make a noticeable difference, plus I'd be willing to bet that if it's set to 800MHz, it'll match the Geil rams timings..

(OMG I just said overclock and within spec in the same sentence, what'a wrong with me?)
 
both are way way overpriced, i personally can't recommend either, but if you must pick one over the other, go for the ddr2-1066
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
both are way way overpriced, i personally can't recommend either, but if you must pick one over the other, go for the ddr2-1066
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almost all RAM is way overpriced right now :)
 
ryan_975 said:
almost all RAM is way overpriced right now :)
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Yeah, it's rediculous how expensive it is right now. It was even worse last month - hopefully sometime in December it will go down...
 
maximum pc benched both low lat memory vs bandwidth memory. They said that they were almost neck and neck and that you should go with low late because you dont have to OC off the bat to get results. Also they said in a pinch, you could always relax timings and get more bandwidth.
 
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