G.Skill vs Kingston

[yassa123]

Hello,
What is better : - G.Skill RipjawsX - DDR3 1600Mhz CL9 (Kit 2x4GB) - 8GB
or - Kingston HyperX Fury - DDR3 1600Mhz CL10 (Kit 2x4GB) Black - 8GB

And what is CL10 and CL9?
And also if they're both CL10 or CL9 is there any difference then?
Thx in advance!

 

[joex444]

The difference is one is CL 10 the other is CL 9. CL means CAS Latency, it's the number of cycles between operations. They're both 1600MHz (1.6 billion cycles per second), but one takes 10 cycles before being able to "start again" while the other only takes 9. So the G.Skill with CL9 is better than the Kingston with CL10.

In practice, it's fairly hard to notice outside of memory benchmarks so if you'll save at least $5 with the Kingston it's a better buy.

 

[Pat Flynn]

My recommendation is the G.Skill ram. The 'CL9' and 'CL10' refers to the 'CAS' timings of the ram. Lower = faster (access time).
The reason I recommend the G.Skill ram is personal experience. I've built thousands of computers (used to work as a system builder for a busy retail store for several years) and every time I had any issues with RAM, I was able to solve it by installing G.Skill. Out of the several hundreds (possibly thousands) of kits I've installed, I can only recall a few that had failed (that's an extremely low failure rate, much less than 0.5%).

 

[Tradesman1]

What are you putting the DRAM in? What mobo and CPU? In general I'd always go the GSkill, they tend to have more OC headroom than other brands in their main lines of sticks, and here CL9 is better than CL10. Also depending on your mobo, the Fury operate off PnP rather than the standard of XMP, so can at times find a lack of PnP support on older mobos

 

[yassa123]

What are you putting the DRAM in? What mobo and CPU? In general I'd always go the GSkill, they tend to have more OC headroom than other brands in their main lines of sticks, and here CL9 is better than CL10. Also depending on your mobo, the Fury operate off PnP rather than the standard of XMP, so can at times find a lack of PnP support on older mobos

MSI G85-G43 Gaming

 

[Tradesman1]

I'd go the Ripjaws for the slightly better performance, though either will be fine

 

[Epicness937]

i just go hyper x fury as i think it looks nice and for me its never overheated

also btw the photos are confusing me

 

[Signature818]

Hyper X based on experience and never overheats. Auto Overclock and very good results from all stress tests.