Which is better hyperx or ocz?

Can anyone tell me which is better out of these two kits of memory and what is the difference?


http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146774

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132901


I think the hyperx is 5-5-5-18

and the ocz is 5-5-5-15.



I currently have 3gb in my 1537, a 2gb pc2-6400 by hyundai electronics and a 1gb pc2-6400 by elpida, both came with my laptop.

cpuz says my memory timings are 6-6-6-18.



Thank you for any help.

 

Technically speaking, the OCZ kit is "better" although the only way of knowing that would be to run synthetic benchmarks. The timings are identical save for the tRAS timings (click HERE for more information) which the OCZ is 15 and the Kingston is 18 (lower numbers are better).

Regardless, you are not going to see a difference in memory performance in a laptop with a tRAS value of 15 vs. 18, just like you wouldn't see a lick a difference between a Q9550 and a Q9650.

Anyway, synthetic benchmarks aside, pick whichever memory offers the better warranty and the lowest price.

 

To you, they will be absolutely identical. Just get whichever is cheaper.

 

Thanks for the answers guys, i'm thinking i might go for the ocz kit as the timings are lower and both kits are the same price, i really have no idea when it comes to memory.


They will definately work in my 1537?

 

They will run just fine on your system.

 

I got the ocz kit, and on the website it said the timings were 5-5-5-15, but after i installed them, cpuz reads them as 5-5-5-18, any reason why that is?

 

The difference in timing has no effect on real life performance like WEI scores. Just pretend it's 15

 

Haha ok, thanks, i was just thinking i had been ripped off.

 

Just wondering if anyone can help me, my new memory is reading 400mhz max bandwidth in cpuz when i think it's supposed to be 800mhz.

 

DDR - Double Data Rate

meaning it actually is 2x faster than that reading.

Also I got to the topic late but both ram choices were the same, just go for the cheaper one or better warranty.

ram companies do not actually make the ram, they just test it and slap there brand name on it. The IC's (internal circutes) are made by other people like micron, samsung, ect.

 

While in this instance they might be, in other RAM applications they are not. All RAM is not created equal, and depending on the chips used, memory with quality chips can feature fantastic performance, stability, and reliability. Such a case of this was Micron's famous D9 chips used in select DDR2 modules several years ago.

 

Most notebook users don't overclock, hence it doesn't matter what most users pick. Haven't seen anything like D9s for any SO-DIMMs and it's not easy to determine what batch of modules companies use for their memory, so unless you want to need the highest OC and want to buy/return a bunch of modules, it's not really worth the effort.

 

Yeah correct and thats what I said, it depends on the IC's not the brand.

When you see 2 brands with ram with the same specs (voltage/timings) 99% of the time its the same IC's

When you see different specs thats when you know the IC's are probably different and one will perform different than the other.