Needs Review Corsair VS Kingston

Hi guys. i want to upgrade my laptop RAM. i got 2 items here n very very confuse, i need your help to review n compare it.

Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB (8GB kit) @1866 Mhz CL 10 without heat spreader

VS

Kingston HyperX 2x4GB (8GB kit) @1866 Mhz CL 11 with heat spreader

which is better n i should buy ?? thx a lot before guys

my laptop

Sager OEM NP5165
Intel Core i7 2720
500GB HD
NVIDIA GT555M
RAM --> Still Confuse which one i should buy, Corsair vengeance 2x4 @1866 or Kingston HyperX PnP 2x4 @1866

 

Cheaper one. and 1866Mhz? You sure you buying laptop rams though?

 

Yea, I didn't think laptop RAM has heat spreaders...

Plus RAM = RAM. As baiii said, go with the cheapest option and make sure it's laptop RAM.

 

Some laptop RAM has heat spreaders like Kingston HyperX:

 

Neither. Just get 8 GB of DDR3-1333 as it will be much cheaper. The only speed difference comes in synthetic benchmarks. Use the money you save toward an SSD, which will provide a much more noticeable boost.

 

They do have the aforementioned laptop ram for sale on Newegg, and the reviews are tempting as their WEI all get up to !7.9!. According to (I would say 75%) reviews, they noticed noticeable performance boost.

Personally, I dont buy that , I think it is more about they are not using their pagefile any more.

 

All the pros and cons aside, just to answer your question:

The Corsair are a bit faster out of the box because of their lower timings (CL10 > CL11)

For people who are into making the best (tweaking) out of what they paid for that maybe different:

Then the Kingston run CL9 (9-10-9-27), we have yet to see how the Corsair would do after some treatment, but i guess they would do even better.

 

my laptop

Sager OEM NP5165
Intel Core i7 2720
500GB HD
NVIDIA GT555M
RAM --> Still Confuse which one i should buy, Corsair vengeance 2x4 @1866 or Kingston HyperX PnP 2x4 @1866

THX to all for the suggestion

 

Get the Kingston PNP kit. They will install and run at 1866 for you without additional work

 

They both are plug and play and will run@1866mhz... neither of them has XMP profiles...the Corsair are a bit faster and are about 20USD cheaper...take your own pick

BTW: Also both have heat-spreaders!

 

RAM is RAM is RAM. 1866/1600/1333 makes no real world difference for normal tasks (reading emails, Word, etc). In synthetic benchmarks, maybe you'll see a 5% difference, MAX. Hence just get whatever is cheapest.

 

corsair use heatspreaders ? isn;t an sticker or kind of vinyl ?? not sure bout it

 

You will see a big difference in performance, one which can be measured on a stopwatch, if you are playing around with huge adobe photoshop/illustrator/indesign files, or even some heavy animation software- given your processor can make use of it. If you use firefox, and microsoft word all of the time I completely agree, get whats cheapest that has a lifetime warranty

Out of personal experience, Kingston has a better RMA department than Corsair does, so when your memory does fail, Kingston gives you a lot less hassle in terms of getting it replaced in a timely fashion.

Chris

 

Well right, but average joe schmoe isn't using Photoshop, or compiling code, they are reading emails and doing Word. And there are better ways at spending money than on faster RAM for that kind of work; better CPU, GPU, SSD.

 

Anyone have any benchmarks that directly compare these, or any comparison links? I was hoping to wait for 2133 mhz but that seems to be a long way from now..

 

Corsair:

http://www.sisoftware.eu/rank2011d/...b68bb99ff7cafadca499a98fea8fb282a4d7eada&l=en

Kingston:

http://www.sisoftware.eu/rank2011d/...c9f4c6e088b585a3dbe6d6f095f0cdfddba895a5&l=en

 

How does higher speed ram affect large file? I understand capacity can give a noticeable performance but bandwidth?

 

There is a case for maybe going to 1600mhz to get the most our of SB, but maybe not when paired with the 555m.