Hello everyone!

well, I'm building my new rig and I need some thoughts in this matter...

Its a i7 core oriented computer, and I think I narrowed memories down to this 2

Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3 - $168.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224


and


OCZ Gold 6GB - $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227365


So, is it worth the 70 extra bucks to get the dominator??? im not very fond on spending too much on memory, yet, if its really worth the expense, i would pay it.

Comments???

THANKS!

neither, get one of these

OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) - $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227381
or even better
CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) - $134.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145242
these are the only ones imo worth the extra money

I gotta agree with Bot here due to the lower latencies on the kits in his links.

i see... nice

now, theres something i dont quite understand... why would OCZ make 2 set of memories with the same price but one better than the other??? does the gold one have something the platinum one doesnt?

and between corsair and ocz, which one would you rather buy?

again, thanks a lot for the help here!!!

the platnium used to be priced higher but it came down.
ocz and corsair are both reputable companies. i had good experiences with both.
i'd might favor ocz just a tad but for the two models i showed i would go with the corsair

OCZ as a company is incredible. I just got my PSU fixed for free, only had to pay shipping and they didn't charged me anything not even shipping back the item to Puerto Rico!

Oh yeah i'm an OCZ fanboy lol.

I've been with OCZ ever since DDR 400 2-2-2-5, and even tough GEIL is better for ultra high end memory, OCZ Platinum series have always been my favorite.

I've never had any issues with any OCZ memory I've had... even when I was running it 20 or 30% over its rated speed.

Eww. G.SKILL for meez. But given a choice between those two, I'd probably go with the OCZ set.

Have been using Corsair since my very first build.

now that you mention it, OCZ has been great with me also!

4 years ago I moved from the states to Chile, south america, but i brought with me my last built PC. The thing is, my OCZ 500W PSU failed and it was kind of expensive to ship it back, so OCZ solution was to ship me back a 700w GamexStream instead (at the moment it was quite high-end), and I was quite happy with the arrangement.

Kudos for OCZ and their good-willed personnel!

OCZ uses a lot of gimmick stuff so you can have umpteen different choices at umpteen different prices for basically the same RAM. I've tried them twice and RMA'd them for not being at advertised speed/latency.

A bit off topic or out of range price wise, these gave me a good laugh. http://snipurl.com/jn1j4
You can never go wrong with RAM that has red and green "blinky' lights! LOL

"The distinctive heat spreader lets everyone know you aren't someone to mess with, assuming that you let them close enough to your rig to see what you have under the hood."
More like being embarrassed you spent $300 on RAM with blinky lights.