Corsair or Gskill 24GB Kit? Overclockability?

Hey guys,

I'm debating over two kits of ram. The corsair vengence 24Gb 1600 C9 CMZ24GX3M6A1600C9 or the G.Skill Ripjaw 24GB 1600 C9 "F3-12800CL9T2-24GBRL"

Both have basically similar specs, the gskill one is $10 cheaper. I plan to order them today or tomorrow, since the dram prices are soon to be raising again.

I heard good results on the overclockability on the vengence's a few months ago on the 12GB kit, which I would assume its practically the same kit but more sticks.

The g.skill, only good thing I heard recently is that it's able to be under volted to 1.25V, which doesn't really interest me either, but I don't plan on overclocking these chips much, in fact I may just run them at 1333 C7's when I need to then undervolt. Although the 8GB kit do seem to be able to OC nicely.

That being said, what do you guys think? I'm not satified with either sticks of ram's color scheme and heatsink style. Though I would believe the gskill one would look nicer in my system, that being said, I don't even look at my pc that much anymore.

I may also be splitting 24GB into 12GB for my dad, since his patriot crapped out on him. So we both want ease of mind, basically.

Ive heard Corsair has swithced out their memory chips without telling people and now they use lower grade chips. However, the GSkill of those probably also use the same lower grade chips.

Running extremely high density on cheapo RAM isnt really going to give you much OC potential, so either will probably do the same. Since you are already saying you might underclock them and undervolt, then if the GSkill is able to run at the lower voltage it is the clear choice.

I would go with GSkill myself. Corsair always had been overpriced compared to others...(and that goes for everything they sell)

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Originally Posted by solofly

I would go with GSkill myself. Corsair always had been overpriced compared to others...(and that goes for everything they sell)

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I already sprung for the Corsair set. So far so happy. Can't run 1600 C8 at 1.65v with 24GB ( didn't really try to either ) but it runs super happy at this rated specs.

My vote is G.SKill too but Corsair is great and it looks like you got that. Really can't go wrong with either.