DDR4 RAM choice - Corsair or Kingston

[OJROUFC]

Was looking at two sets of RAM for a Skylake build. The two sets in question are:

-Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3000 MHz £74.99

and

HyperX Fury 16GB 2133 MHz £66.99

Obviously, the Fury are cheaper and have some "auto overclocking" feature. However, on face Corsair seems faster with 3000MHz, but I'm unsure if this will matter in real world use. I was also favouring the Corsair because of the aesthetics too.

Any recommendations between these two RAMs would be helpful, plus any idea about this "auto overclocking" ability the Fury has.

 

[Lutfij]

If you're not on a Z series chipset based board i.e Z170 chipsetted motherboard then you're not going to be able to go past the 2133MHz threshold on the platform.

Judging from your two products, the Kingston only goes to 2133MHz while the Corsair will go to 3000(with the help of an X.M.P profile). To note, DDR4 ram frequency's start from 2133MHz so there is no need for enabling X.M.P profiles on it. Recommendations will come by as soon as we learn of your full system's specs.

If you've got the cash then pick up Klevv CRAS rams or Galax's HOF memory and if you're going all out then you can look at the Special edition Corsair Dominator Platinum kits but they all will cost you a pretty penny.

 

[Tradesman1]

What mobo and CPU? No need to look at 3000 if you can't run it The Fury have the ability to use PnP to set themselves up automatically to run at the fastest they can - however on a 2133 set - it's 2133 and that's the default for DDR4 based Skylake rigs. If you have a K series CPU and a Z170, 3000 should be good, it may take a bit of a CPU OC to run at full 3000

 

[R4DIO4CT1VE]

in many cases going up to 3000MHz will give you about a 1 to 5 fps increase (often no increase), honestly you probably wont be able to tell the difference while gaming for the most part.

 

[Tradesman1]

in many cases going up to 3000MHz will give you about a 1 to 5 fps increase (often no increase), honestly you probably wont be able to tell the difference while gaming for the most part.

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That depends on the game, more modern games are utilizing DRAM more and more both in speed and amount, i.e. Fallout 4

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/770034-Fallout-4-memory-speed-making-significant-differences-in-benchmarks

http://wccftech.com/fallout-4-performance-heavily-influenced-by-ram-speed-according-to-report/