Best Memory for M11x? Kind of Urgent

So I came into a little extra cash today from work, and I am looking to upgrade my stock ram to either a better brand of 4gb or even 8gb.

What brand of ram should I be looking for and what latency?

I saw that theres 9-9-9-24 and 7-7-7-20. That makes no sense to me lol.

 

Latency makes 0 difference on the R1 since it can't utilize the CAS latency of higher end cards (7 and up). The R2 chipsets may be a different story, but I personally never paid much attention...

 

corsair maybe?

 

GSkill is awesome. Always used them.

 

i'm thinking of changing my RAM cos some how Samsung and RAM doesn't bode well.

 

Someone mentioned when using SetPLL GSkill performs worse than stock.
I was going to go with the Corsair. Guaranteed compatibility and fair price.
If not go with the lowest cas lat possible I think. Which is usually more expensive.

 

something like this might be good:

Newegg.com - CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 Laptop Memory Model CMSO8GX3M2A1333C9

 

I've upgraded all three of my Alienware's with that memory, it's worked like charm in all three even with overclocking.

 

I have used the same memory. No problems at all with it.

 

latency makes almost zero difference unless you are doing competitive benchmarking. Thats why you no longer see big advertising over low latencies. It just does NOT make any difference that you will feel, see, hear, etc. It's measurable in the sense of several 3DMark points for example, but that does not equate to even 1 or 2 FPS in games.

High quality RAM is what's important. Junky generic stuff may run at the advertised speed, but it could be cheap modules that are just being pushed faster than they were manufactured for as opposed to being designed to run at that speed, resulting in failures or errors.

 

It's all the same chips slapped on a PCB. Buy any cheap name brand for the most part and you'll be fine. I've used G.Skill for all my computers mainly because I got them at good prices and run well, overclock fine.

 

I ordered that Corsair memory from tigerdirect since they dont charge tax for me.

Hopefully it allows to keep a stable 166mhz oc like my stock ram. Maybe even more

Also I ordered a 64gb Samsung 470 with it. It was only another $110. Early birthday present to myself! Cant wait! Two day shipping. Will be here wednesday

 

Don't upgrade yet, wait for Samsung's DDR4 RAM. The M11X R1/R2 might run it. But you said urgent so 4GB corsair will be great! latency doesn't matter too much, long story.

 

i doubt DDR4 RAM will work on a DDR3 motherboard!