Any difference between HyperX Genesis and HyperX LoVo beyond the voltage?

[hikoPC]

As thread title really, I was hoping to purchase some G.Skill Tridents, but I've just discovered that my Archon X2 CPU cooler will potentially interfere with any memory taller than 3cm in the first RAM slot of a 1155 motherboard (turns out the lauded slimness of the Archon was only tested on 1156 motherboards!)

Soooo, I'm looking at lower-profile memory and I'm particularly interested in purchasing 32Gb of 1600MHz HyperX Genesis, but amazingly the price of the quad-channel set has skyrocketed upwards of £130 in the last 24hrs at some places! (In which case I assume that makes the LoVo better?)

The HyperX LoVo is still at the same price point at a few etailers though (around £230), but I'm paranoid that there's a hit in performance to achieve this Low Voltage? Is the only difference between these memory types merely the 1.35V - 1.5V difference?

Motherboard is the Asus Maximus VI Hero

 

[Tradesman1]

First your cooler shouldn't be a problem, the Trident's have a removable top fin, the others may well use different chips, I don't keep up that close on Kingston sticks

 

[hikoPC]

It seems it's a high risk. Thermalright have apparently admitted that the Archon can interfere with the first memory slot on Asus 1155 boards because the memory is slightly closer to the CPU area than on the 1156 boards they designed the cooler for. People are reporting that the fan clips protrude out and interfere with memory taller than about 3cm. The Tridents are still 3.9cm tall even when you remove the heat spreaders.

My decision is to basically go with the Tridents and potentially have a problem fitting the stick closest to the CPU cooler, or go with lower-profile memory and not have any issue. The problem is that I probably won't be able to build my PC until early October and the Tridents are on sale right now, so I'd have to buy now and then I might not be able to return them if they're too tall.

This is the G.Skill memory I can get for £256 you reckon they're worth the risk then?

 

[Tradesman1]

Let us know how it goes