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learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of a couple of different

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products from adata so these are both members of their xpg line and I wanted

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to treat this video not just as another RAM unboxing because let's face it I've

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done enough of those over the years it's RAM it goes in your motherboard more

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more better usually anyway the point of all

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of this is why would you want different

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types of memory so in front of me with

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the easy open packaging which I am still working on here got my easy open

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packaging there we go that was easy all right I have two very very different

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options that represent a lot of different uh different aspects of the

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memory purchasing process so right here I have some more basic low profile xpg

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modules these ones are a 16 gig kit so

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it's a 2x8 gig kit that means it's optimized for dual Channel operation on

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whether it's an Intel z77 or Z87

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platform or an AMD platform so dual Channel optimized number two is it's a

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high capacity kit so that's high density

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memory modules that usually means you're going to get well more capacity which is

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great for things like video editing or uh rendering particularly for like sort

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of light consumer or prummer grade stuff because this isn't like ECC registered

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or like workstation grade or anything like that so it's going to be useful for

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applications where you need lots of RAM but higher density modules tend not to

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be available at the same kinds of speeds as lower density modules so latency is

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usually a tradeoff so that's that that's that CL and then the series of timings

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after it is usually a trade-off with the frequency that it runs at so if this

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runs at 1866 cl10 you can usually assume

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that that's sort of equivalent in terms of performance to 1600 cl9 or something

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along those lines but it depends on whether the application likes more

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bandwidth or likes lower latency and that's something that you definitely

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want to shop for when you're looking at memory these modules are also low

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profile which can offer better compatibility with different coolers

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that can overhang the memory slots so there you go that's the summary of these

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xpg modules right here 1866 8 gig dims

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low profile and high density all right

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now let's move on to these xpg modules so these are more about the

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flashiness so we got black pcbs

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high-profile spreaders that in theory will offer slightly better heat

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dissipation but in practice it doesn't really make that much of a difference it

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does reduce compatibility with larger air coolers that overhang the memory

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slots from time to time although the heat sink manufacturers are working on

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making this less of an issue but of course if you're running water cooling

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For example then that won't be a problem and these ones right here run at very

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high frequency so these are 2.4 GHz memory modules at a cast latency of only

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11 so the timings are not that much looser than that 1866 kit making these

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pretty pricey huh pretty pricey memory modules now with all of that said per

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the performance difference between the lowest end memory and the highest end

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memory is not that much for some people

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and unless you're into the tuning and tweaking aspect you might not find it

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worthwhile to spend a ton of money on very expensive memory although we're

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going to have a follow-up video coming where we take this 2400 MHz memory run

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it at a bunch of different speeds particularly in gaming applications and

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find out exactly how much of a difference it makes because right now I can't quantify it but that'll be coming

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soon it definitely looks better especially if you color match with your

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motherboard in this case we've got an ASUS Z87 Deluxe that I think it happens

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to look particularly ravishing in and I

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think that pretty much covers it so the main things you're looking for guys are

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is it optimized for the right number of channels for your system what capacity

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do you need what speed you need it to run at and make sure you check those

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latency timings because the higher they are the more it might negate any benefit

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you're getting from the higher clock speed of your memory and it can be quite

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difficult for your CPU to run very high clock speed memory particularly on last

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generation Intel platform such as ivybridge or even on Haswell when you're

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