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VisionTek Ultimate Performance PC3-17000 Memory Review - PAGE 8
Chris Ledenican - Like +my favouritesOver the last few years, there has been a saying that memory is memory and there is ultimately little difference in performance from one kit to another. For the most part I subscribe to this philosophy as outside of synthetic benchmarks, the bandwidth and latencies of memory only marginally impact real-world performance. For this reason, there has to be more to a kit of memory than clock speeds to make it stand out. To achieve this, for years manufacturers have have slapped on high-quality thermal solutions, tightened the timings and lowered the voltage, all just to be crowned the best of the best.
The question is where does VisionTek's memory fit in today’s crowded market? If you ask us, they actually deserve to be recognized as a high-end memory manufacturer because they offer an exceptional warranty that easily covers the lifespan of the memory. Additionally, each kit has a high-quality heatsink that is heavy duty enough to ensure the memory chips are cool, but are still low enough in profile to suffer from fewer clearance issues compared to similar offerings from other high-end memory manufacturers like Corsair and Patriot. VisionTek also runs each kit though a rigorous testing process before they are shipped to the consumer, so when they arrive there is very little chance they aren’t going to work out of the box.
VisionTek has also kept the prices in line with other major manufacturers. Looking over some of the more trusted online hardware deals, we found most 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 kits with comparable timings and bandwidth to retail between $80 and $90 USD. While we couldn’t nail down an exact price on this particular kit of memory, the average price we saw online was around $85, which is standard for a 8GB kit of this caliber. However, 1600MHz kits are nearly half the price and there is only a small performance difference between the lower and higher bandwidth models in the consumer market.
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you guys still havent gotten your hands on low voltage RAM, have you? i said it before, and ill say it again...i would REALLY love to read a review on those sticks. in particular, this one, as it looks to be the only kit that runs at 1.25 volts
i mean, it offers no performance benefits (does it overclock more?), it isnt like RAM pumps out a ton of heat (i can see it helping a bit for laptops, but not so much desktops), and the small difference in voltage will make a negligible effect to ones power bill.... am i missing something?
as for the power bill, yep, also going to have a negligible effect. just like the gold efficiency power supplies. but in a few years, they pay themselves off. there are two forms of thinking here - get cheaper parts now, or pay a little more so that you save money in the long run. i am a firm believer in the latter.
also, while i can say for certain whether it will overclock better or not, i would assume so, considering that the modules would had to have been made more stable to run at the lower voltage in the first place, meaning that the parts themselves should be more stable, and because of the lower heat, it should have more tolerance for overclocking, compared to another stick of higher voltage.
i wonder though, what are the tolerances of low voltage ram? can i take it to, say, the voltage of a non-low voltage ram stick for overclocking purposes?
damnit, now im clamoring for a low-voltage ram review.
as for whether it can withstand higher voltages, im not sure. if you compare it to processors with ever decreasing manufacturing processes (32nm, 22nm etc), you see that the smaller it gets, the lower the vCore, but at the same time, they can overclock more, with less of a voltage increase. even then, their maximum temperature is lower. perhaps it works similarly here.