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So I´m building my first pc and I want to know the difference between all the ram, you have cheap ram and expensive one´s. Aren´t they all the same ? For example what is the difference between this:

Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600 ( Vengeance ) 80 dollars and Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit Vengeance Red, XMP 120 dollars

 

Does it matter wich one I buy, I see alot of brands and prices, can someone please help me out with this, I´m gonna use it for gaming and rendering.

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Vengeance has more overclocking and stufff....

Theres a techquickie on this i believe 

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Personally i woukd get 2x4gb sticks its faster than 1x8gb and looks nicer

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Vengeance has more overclocking and stufff....

Theres a techquickie on this i believe 

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Personally i woukd get 2x4gb sticks its faster than 1x8gb and looks nicer

you cant expand if you have 4 dimms full of 4GB sticks

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Vengeance has more overclocking and stufff....

Theres a techquickie on this i believe 

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You know there is an 'EDIT' button, right?

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Honestly just get the cheaper one, you wont notice a large difference if any difference between the two so you should probably take and use the money you save towards a better cpu, gpu, ssd, ect. 

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You know there is an 'EDIT' button, right?

yeah...

why?

 

Oh wait what? ^^^

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yeah...

why?

Because you posted the same thing twice with only 1 sentence different.

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you cant expand if you have 4 dimms full of 4GB sticks

Who would need more than 16gb also that was my opinion not my suggestion 

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Because you posted the same thing twice with only 1 sentence different.

I EDITED THE yeah... why?

 

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Who would need more than 16gb also that was my opinion not my suggestion 

Well I have 4x4GB dimms and now I need to buy a whole new set of ram to get 32GB because I always get capped at 16 which makes stuff lag a lot :(

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Honestly just get the cheaper one, you wont notice a large difference if any difference between the two so you should probably take and use the money you save towards a better cpu, gpu, ssd, ect. 

Ow ok, I´m glad to hear that :)

Thanks everyone for your quick responses !!

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Brand doesn't really matter.

 

Where did you get this nfo from? or are you trying to say that dual channel RAM is faster than single channel RAM?

Dual channel allows for more bandwidth which should theoretically increase performance. 

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Main differencies with ram of same specs are brand and looks. Nothing else. Speed difference is really minimal if you see the benchmarks. And you won't notice if on normal use cases anyway.

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Main differencies with ram of same specs are brand and looks. Nothing else. Speed difference is really minimal if you see the benchmarks. And you won't notice if on normal use cases anyway.

There's no difference in performance for any ram of the same specs.

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