Question About Corsair RAM
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I peered very closely at their website when I bought some recently and I found out that if you select 'tech specs' and scroll down the same distance in two tabs, you can go from one kit to an equivalent with one CAS difference and literally see only the 'tested latency' change while 'SPD Latency' remains the same.
Then looking in their overview:
So I would assume that if the C number is the only difference you see in the details, it's literally the only difference, and implies these ones got a better result in some test(s) after they were made. So I think in those cases it's like a rating of how lucky they got in the manufacturing process. Unless I've just read it wrong or something.
Then looking in their overview:
or (for XMS)
So I would assume that if the C number is the only difference you see in the details, it's literally the only difference, and implies these ones got a better result in some test(s) after they were made. So I think in those cases it's like a rating of how lucky they got in the manufacturing process. Unless I've just read it wrong or something.
The C number seems to be taken directly from the results they get, like:
CMD16GX3M4A2800C11 = Tested Latency 11-14-14-35 ($839.99)
CMD16GX3M4A2800C12 = Tested Latency 12-14-14-36 ($729.99)
I guess we know which one Corsair thinks is better. However, sort their store by speed and it seems that overall, less latency = lower MHz, and lower price. So between otherwise identical things, a lower Tested Latency is better (they all seem to have the same SPD Latency in the Dominator Platinum section), but at the same time they seem to be suggesting we look at MHz and GB first, by rather a lot.
Not that I know anything about latency in RAM, this is just what I gather from Corsair's pricing strategy. ^_^
Naturally, I'd not suggest you actually pay anything like $110 for the odd spare nanosecond unless you bathe in money, and I'm unsure you'd ever perceive the difference between something like these examples...
CMD16GX3M4A2800C11 = Tested Latency 11-14-14-35 ($839.99)
CMD16GX3M4A2800C12 = Tested Latency 12-14-14-36 ($729.99)
I guess we know which one Corsair thinks is better. However, sort their store by speed and it seems that overall, less latency = lower MHz, and lower price. So between otherwise identical things, a lower Tested Latency is better (they all seem to have the same SPD Latency in the Dominator Platinum section), but at the same time they seem to be suggesting we look at MHz and GB first, by rather a lot.
Not that I know anything about latency in RAM, this is just what I gather from Corsair's pricing strategy. ^_^
Naturally, I'd not suggest you actually pay anything like $110 for the odd spare nanosecond unless you bathe in money, and I'm unsure you'd ever perceive the difference between something like these examples...
