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Lifer
- Sep 22, 2007
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My personal opinion used to always be "go with the fastest ram you can afford". Whether faster meant highest frequency or lowest timings or a mixture of both, is up to the buyer. However, I have to say man....I was in a pinch and the only place I could go to get ram RIGHT NOW type of deal, was a micro center. They didn't have very many different types in stock, I mis read a post somewhere and ended up grabbing the trident z 3200mhz cl16 2x8gb set. At first I was a little disappointed, I was like damn I didn't buy samsung B die, it's to high of a cas latency, i'm irritated. But, I don't know what it is....the more and more I look into my case, which is on my desk. I absolutely LOVE the RGB ram. I'm not a big rgb guy either, but it looks so damn good in my case that I am actually happier that I went with trident z over anything else. Yes, there is faster ram, yes there is cheaper ram, but there aren't a whole lot of sticks of ram that look as sexy as these. My 2 cents is if you care about RGB AT ALL, grab the trident z sticks. If you don't think you will ever care if your ram is rgb, then grab the ripjaws you last posted. That's just my opinion though, I'm sure everyone else will say to go with the fastest ram possible and that rgb doesn't matter and I am crazy haha. But it looks sweet man....I'm staring at it as I right this, watching it change colors with my motherboard and video card and AIO cooler. It just fits perfectly!
I actually don’t mind RGB as long as it is tasteful, BUT this rig will sit on the floor in a corner and you’d never see the RAM, so that’s why I think I’ll go for the Ripjaws b-die. Now I’m debating 16 vs 32, though I think I’ll likely just go with 16 for now.