Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz C9 Review

[Ket]

Ket,
You need Ripjaws 2000 8-9-8 or Flare 2000 8-9-8 to get 2000 8-9-8. (The 2300 9-11-9 kits might do it too...) You are expecting too much. Very few Hynix BFR will do 2000 8-9-8.

A half decent cheap kit is capable of 1866 9-10-9, and half decent reasonably priced kit should do 1866 8-9-8. Only top bin stuff will do much more.

By the way ket, I hinted at using 2T for the Hynix modules, see if it helps...you are being a bit daft imo as far as the overclocking goes. Let go of the frustration and try a different combination of timings.

How many times do you have to be told that 2T timings have already been tried? Its right there in my very first post I've tried countless memory modules of various capacities, the 8GB kits I did test, even the no-name DIY dual channel stuff (IE, two sticks bought at the same time but not tested for DC by the supplier) managed 9-9-9-25 1N @ 1866 1.62v. The Vengeance kit will not even run 1866 @ 9-9-9-25 1N with 1.65v and they are supposed to work with 1.5v at that speed. Even 9-10-9 XMP settings are a bust, stability is very flaky.

Corsair advertise the Vengeance kit as being for overclockers. I didn't expect the memory to OC very well anyway so I already lowered my standards when going into doing the review being satisfied if the modules hit 9-9-9 or better at their rated frequency, which neither kit will do. Corsair are flase advertising, and that is illegal.