G.Skill RipJaws - Good choice for AMD or best avoided?

[[XC] Oj101]

Hey guys, I was thinking of teaming a 965BE and MSI GD70 with this RAM. Good idea or not? If not, which of these should I go for? http://www.memoryc.com/computermemor...dard=PC3+12800

Thanks

Otherwise these?

[Smartidiot89]

I can highly recommend 2GB Crucial BallistiX 1333mhz CL6 1.8v if you can find them... Great piece of RAM modules and they are quite cheap

[[XC] Oj101]

2x1GB or 1x2GB? I want to run 2x2GB

[Smartidiot89]

2x1GB or 1x2GB? I want to run 2x2GB

They are 2GB modules

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148226
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148227

[[XC] Oj101]

Why're our prices so over inflated in SA? http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/cr...600-p-404.html

That's 2x1GB for almost US$200 :/

[Particle]

I suppose it depends on the context. Overclocking wise I don't know anything about them, but I've used that series on an AMD build for a customer. They work just fine at spec/are compatible.

[[XC] Oj101]

And they look AWESOME

[Baulten]

A few weeks ago I'd say no, but with latest bios Ripjaws work fine with GD70. Run at stock, and overclock decent (You won't get lower than 7 cas though).

[[XC] Oj101]

Ok, that won't do then. How about the OCZs? Otherwise I'll grab the Crucials, tight timings combined with a decent price

[daseto]

Geil has some 1333mhz cas6 RAM, though newegg only has the 2gig kit, not the 4gig kit. If you can find the 4giger though that would be the stuff to get. The 2gig kit runs very well at low voltage on AMD. It is their Ultra Series, and the 4giger is kinda hard to find.

[MadDias]

i can recommend the cl7 ddr3 1600 ripjaws.
as baulten said with the newer bioses they run fine on a msi gd70.
i wouldn´t go with the cl9 ddr3 2000 that u picked in ur first post. u will never be able to pull ddr3 2000 without extreme tweaking and volts.
depends on what u want... ddr3 1333 cl6 or ddr3 1600 cl7
if u don´t mind cl7 get the ripjaws. 1600 cl6 is very hard to find these days.

[wuttz]

i have cpu-z of g.skill ripjaws on asus crosshair III here.

[chew*]

You guys ever stop and take a minute to understand why you could not get c7 on MSI prior and can now?

I suggest doing a perfromance comparison with a prior bios with dimms that could do c7 1600 and then compare the performance with the newer bios and the ripjaws

I can talk to gigabyte and have them back off everything and make c6 1800 a breeze......doesn't mean it will be fast.....but becasue you see it you will think it is.

[[XC] Oj101]

Ok this is where I shut up and listen

[Smartidiot89]

You guys ever stop and take a minute to understand why you could not get c7 on MSI prior and can now?

I suggest doing a perfromance comparison with a prior bios with dimms that could do c7 1600 and then compare the performance with the newer bios and the ripjaws

I can talk to gigabyte and have them back off everything and make c6 1800 a breeze......doesn't mean it will be fast.....but becasue you see it you will think it is.

You're like my knight in shining armor. Thanks alot Chew* now I don't need to worry about NOT being able to use that buggy BIOS which doesn't allow me to raise my NB clocks

[[XC] Oj101]

What about these though? They look pretty good for the money as well. I still love the Ripjaws heatspreaders though, although it would go better with Asus' colour scheme than my MSI but anyway...

[chew*]

What about these though? They look pretty good for the money as well. I still love the Ripjaws heatspreaders though, although it would go better with Asus' colour scheme than my MSI but anyway...

Those did c7 all the way back on 13B6 on MSi (which that bios ran a tighter ship), IIRC they needed just a tad more volts than spec, like 1.69v for my set to be prime 95 stable.

If you like the ripjaw spreaders.....I won the blue 8-8-8 1600 set in the giga dragon contest. I verified they ran spec and were prime stable on 3 boards. They seemed to have OC headroom as well but forget c7 + prime stable.

[MadDias]

I suggest doing a perfromance comparison with a prior bios with dimms that could do c7 1600 and then compare the performance with the newer bios and the ripjaws

just did a spi 32m run with the exact same settings which i used for my ocz reapers on the 1.4b2 bios.
the difference was 1s.
is 1s in 32m that much of a performance hit? might also be vista doing some mambojambo in the background.
i don´t know if it´s the new bios or the lv ram. but i´m 1hr occt stable at 20x200, nb 13x200, 1600 c7 which wasn´t even bootable before the "loosened" bios (not on the reapers and not on the ripjaws).
so i take looser timings in favor of higher cpu clocks with a smile. the performance gain is massive compared to my old setup.

[[XC] Oj101]

Those did c7 all the way back on 13B6 on MSi (which that bios ran a tighter ship), IIRC they needed just a tad more volts than spec, like 1.69v for my set to be prime 95 stable.

If you like the ripjaw spreaders.....I won the blue 8-8-8 1600 set in the giga dragon contest. I verified they ran spec and were prime stable on 3 boards. They seemed to have OC headroom as well but forget c7 + prime stable.

Master Brian, which set should I take for optimal performance? You know my specs

[chew*]

Master Brian, which set should I take for optimal performance? You know my specs

I would take the OCZ's only because I know they can do C7 on at least 4 of the top teir boards.....on about any bios albeit with a tad more volts than spec but voltage within warranty range. More importantly you can drop the multi and they will do 6-6-6 1333.....

I think they have issues in DFI.

[[XC] Oj101]

They sound like exactly what I'm looking for, thanks

By the way, have you been getting my PMs? I might be having problems sending them from my phone.

[chew*]

They sound like exactly what I'm looking for, thanks

By the way, have you been getting my PMs? I might be having problems sending them from my phone.

Um no clue I get so many a day I forget from who. I have been so busy lately I think I'm aging quicker.....looked in mirror today and say grey hairs in my beard

[[XC] Oj101]

Ok so the Crucials are now a deactivated item and the OCZs are nowhere to be found, what about one of these?

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory w/ LEDs Model BL2KIT25664TR1337 - Retail

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT25664TN1337 - Retail

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory w/ LEDs Model BL2KIT25664TB1337 - Retail

The blue ones would look sweet with the GD-70, would any of the above manage 1333C6 on the MSI with an older BIOS?

EDIT: The blue Ripjaws will do their rated speed but not C7? What about these?

4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Ripjaw Series (7-8-7-24) Dual Channel kit for Intel LGA1156 i5/i7

[mäggäri]

I bought a 2x2Gb kit of Geil Ultra 2133MHz CL9 at a price of 78euros, actually 2x 2x2Gb kits, but I sold the another already for a little profit :P

IMO, Ripjaws are soooooo overrated. Bulk cheap sticks with some candypaper heatsinks on them. For me, more important is the chips used in the product than the fancy heatsinks.

I've also had 4 kits of OCZ Reaper 6-6-6-18, but they were all just 2x1Gb... that's the reason why I'm now using GEILs. Reapers are nice too, they go CL8 around ~1950MHz @ 1.9-2.0V.

[[XC] Oj101]

You people are forgetting that RAM acts very differently on AMD compared to Intel... Hence my choices listed.