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learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of a couple of different
products from adata so these are both members of their xpg line and I wanted
to treat this video not just as another RAM unboxing because let's face it I've
done enough of those over the years it's RAM it goes in your motherboard more
more better usually anyway the point of all
of this is why would you want different
types of memory so in front of me with
the easy open packaging which I am still working on here got my easy open
packaging there we go that was easy all right I have two very very different
options that represent a lot of different uh different aspects of the
memory purchasing process so right here I have some more basic low profile xpg
modules these ones are a 16 gig kit so
it's a 2x8 gig kit that means it's optimized for dual Channel operation on
whether it's an Intel z77 or Z87
platform or an AMD platform so dual Channel optimized number two is it's a
high capacity kit so that's high density
memory modules that usually means you're going to get well more capacity which is
great for things like video editing or uh rendering particularly for like sort
of light consumer or prummer grade stuff because this isn't like ECC registered
or like workstation grade or anything like that so it's going to be useful for
applications where you need lots of RAM but higher density modules tend not to
be available at the same kinds of speeds as lower density modules so latency is
usually a tradeoff so that's that that's that CL and then the series of timings
after it is usually a trade-off with the frequency that it runs at so if this
runs at 1866 cl10 you can usually assume
that that's sort of equivalent in terms of performance to 1600 cl9 or something
along those lines but it depends on whether the application likes more
bandwidth or likes lower latency and that's something that you definitely
want to shop for when you're looking at memory these modules are also low
profile which can offer better compatibility with different coolers
that can overhang the memory slots so there you go that's the summary of these
xpg modules right here 1866 8 gig dims
low profile and high density all right
now let's move on to these xpg modules so these are more about the
flashiness so we got black pcbs
high-profile spreaders that in theory will offer slightly better heat
dissipation but in practice it doesn't really make that much of a difference it
does reduce compatibility with larger air coolers that overhang the memory
slots from time to time although the heat sink manufacturers are working on
making this less of an issue but of course if you're running water cooling
For example then that won't be a problem and these ones right here run at very
high frequency so these are 2.4 GHz memory modules at a cast latency of only
11 so the timings are not that much looser than that 1866 kit making these
pretty pricey huh pretty pricey memory modules now with all of that said per
the performance difference between the lowest end memory and the highest end
memory is not that much for some people
and unless you're into the tuning and tweaking aspect you might not find it
worthwhile to spend a ton of money on very expensive memory although we're
going to have a follow-up video coming where we take this 2400 MHz memory run
it at a bunch of different speeds particularly in gaming applications and
find out exactly how much of a difference it makes because right now I can't quantify it but that'll be coming
soon it definitely looks better especially if you color match with your
motherboard in this case we've got an ASUS Z87 Deluxe that I think it happens
to look particularly ravishing in and I
think that pretty much covers it so the main things you're looking for guys are
is it optimized for the right number of channels for your system what capacity
do you need what speed you need it to run at and make sure you check those
latency timings because the higher they are the more it might negate any benefit
you're getting from the higher clock speed of your memory and it can be quite
difficult for your CPU to run very high clock speed memory particularly on last
generation Intel platform such as ivybridge or even on Haswell when you're
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