Four High-End Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Kits For X79, Reviewed

12:00 AM - December 27, 2011 by Thomas Soderstrom Table of contents 1. Complementing Core i7-3000 With Quad-Channel DDR3 2. Corsair Dominator GT CMGTX8 3. G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZHD 4. Geil Evo Corsa GOC316GB2133C9AQC 5. Mushkin Redline 993997 6. Test Setup And Benchmarks 7. Overclocking And Under-Latency Results 8. DDR3-1600 Memory Performance 9. DDR3-1866 Memory Performance 10. DDR3-2133 Memory Performance 11. Whose Quad-Channel Memory Kit Is The Best?

You just bought the fastest (and most expensive) desktop platform on the planet. Which company's memory will you use to populate Intel's quad-channel controller? We tested four purportedly high-end kits in order to find out which set is the best.

Anyone willing to drop one thousand dollars on a CPU probably wants to match it up to the best possible memory kit, especially armed with the knowledge that Intel’s new quad-channel memory controller is located within that CPU. How are we to know which kit is the best, though?

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