The care and feeding of your Haswell’s memory controller
X-bit Labs did testing of a variety of memory speeds on Haswell to determine if there is a point of diminishing returns at which point your well earned money is no longer…
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Tag: ddr3-1600
Shave another couple of watts off your Kabini system
If you were impressed by the low wattage required to run the AMD AM1 Athlon 5350 and are thinking of building a low power system along the lines of the...
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Crucial’s 16GB Ballistix Tactical has a nice surprise
It is a nice change when a company understates the performance of their product instead of barely living up to their promises. Such is the case with the dual channel...
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As in comedy, one of the key elements of RAM is the timing
X-bit Labs took five DDR3 kits from Kingston to compare in a handy roundup for those looking to see the difference higher frequencies have on a systems performance. They range...
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16GB of 1600MHz quad channel DDR3 from Mushkin
While raw speed can be helpful for your memory subsystem, often times tighter timings can have a more noticeable impact, which is what makes Mushkin's Enhanced Redline Ridgeback 16GB kit worth...
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16GB of DDR3-1600? Corsair has a couple of kits for that
With the arrival of quad-channel memory on the X79 chipset, 16GB kits are arriving on the shelves of suppliers. This amount of memory was once only found on servers but why shouldn't you…
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Corsair Announces Vengeance High-Performance Memory for Laptops
FREMONT, California — December 1st, 2011 — Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced a line of high-performance memory upgrade kits for…
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VisionTek offers good overclocking and a great warranty; shame about the price
Perhaps the first thing you should notice about Visiontek's Ultimate Performance PC3-12800 CL9 1600EX is that it sports a lifetime warranty if you register it within 30 days of purchasing it. After…
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Does Patriot now offer the best deal on DDR3-1600 currently on the market?
According to Legion Hardware the Patriot Gamer 2 DDR3-1600 is the best value on RAM going. They back that claim up with the Gamer 2 1600MHz @ 9-9-9-24 costing only $53...
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