G.Skill Perfect Storm, OCZ Blade
G.Skill Perfect Storm DDR3-2000 CAS 7
One of only two companies to provide CAS 7 rated parts, G.Skill continues to market itself as a better-value enthusiast brand by slightly undercutting the prices of its competitors.
G.Skill includes a two-fan cooler with its ultra-performance RAM, similar to Corsair’s but with slightly lighter construction. Unlike Corsair, G.Skill puts its retail module and cooler kit in a retail-friendly clear package.
Intel XMP programming allow builders to more easily set those tight 7-8-7-20 timings at DDR3-2000, as long as their motherboards support XMP. Reaching DDR3-2000 with any modules does require increasing CPU base clock however, and most overclockers will probably choose manual configuration.
OCZ Blade DDR3-2000 CAS 7
The other CAS 7 modules in today’s lineup comes from OCZ, its Blade Series Low-Voltage kit neither including nor requiring any added cooling.
OCZ’s low-voltage label must be relative to its former dual-channel kits, since its 1.65V rating is the same as the other Core i7 oriented high-performance packages.
OCZ doesn’t add XMP-2000 programming, which isn’t a big loss since a data rate of 2000 MHz requires base-clock alteration normally reserved for manual overclocking anyway. We would, however, have liked to see a DDR3-1866 XMP value, since that matches an available Intel memory ratio.
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this review is a lot of effort but it hasn't shown the most important point -how much difference any of these very very expensive memories actually make to real world performance
that's something sensible folk will pay money for...
In addition to fla56: and also how drastical is the difference between these modules and the ones I own (they run at 1,600 MHz): Corsair Core i7 Dominator, model number TR3X6G1600C8D. Will it REALLY make a huge difference if I switch to DDR3-2000?
Great reveiw , i would also like to see some video links up of how ddr3 compared to people using ddr2 , could see how much it actuly quicking up youre system.