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Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz CL10 Vengeance Low Profile

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System Name Unholy Black
Processor Intel 3570K
Motherboard Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
Cooling Corsair H80i
Memory 16GB (8GB X2) Kingston hyper X 2400mhz
Video Card(s) MSI GTX 970
Storage 250 GB Crucial MX200,120 GB SanDisk Extreme SSD, 1TB SAMSUNG
Display(s) Asus PB278Q and Asus VE247
Case Corsair Air 540
Power Supply Cosair AX860i
Mouse Logitech G502
Keyboard Corsair K95
Software Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Corsair usually makes pretty good products. I got a set of 1866 corsair DIMMs for a 2600k rig and they run plenty well. There are sticks you can get that have tighter timings if you're willing to pay for them but it's not like it will make night and day difference.

Personally I've been pretty happy with my G.Skill memory and I've always have had pretty good luck with Crucial. I've been looking at upgrading one of my rigs with a set of Crucial Ballistix Tactical. It's low profile memory, has pretty tight timings, and run at 1.35v. It costs a little more than the Corsairs you found but I think these might be the same Sammy low-profile chips that were able to hit over 2133Mhz, so it's very possible these could clock like a bat out of hell. It might be worth it for ~£20 more, but that's up to you. Just something worth considering, but I don't think you'll have a problem with the memory you picked out already.

Just keep in mind that IVB chips clock memory really well. :cool:

http://www.dabs.com/products/crucia...cal-lp-ddr3-udimm-240pin-cl8-8G34.html?src=15
 
High speed ram only makes about a 5-10% difference with most CPUs but it does help APUs a lot because the graphics share the ram
 
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