Hi all, I almost managed to order all the bits for my new system today - amongst them was an order for 2 x 6Gb OCZ 1600Mhz CL7 kits; While dabs reported they had stock, it turned out that they didn't. Unfortunately I only found this out after the order cutoff everywhere else for Friday delivery.
I'm thinking eBuyer will be the supplier for what I now intend to get for Saturday delivery (I think they have the lowest saturday delivery charge).
Question is what kit to get - they don't have the one that I'd planned on getting so I'm looking at:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158576
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164761
But I'm open to suggestions on supplier/kit - Cheaper the better but not cheap at the expense of reliability or (too much performance).
I noticed they do have 12Gb kits too - should I be going for one of these rather than 2 * 6Gb kits, do they really have to be hand matched or do they just bung 3 dims from the same batch in a box anyhow? They have worse timings than the kits I mentioned but will that make a massive difference?
I do intend to overclock if that has a bearing on things.
I did read an article on anand recently suggesting that even lower spec kits do give reasonable performance and that you don't get enough bang4buck when buying higher rated kits - what do you think?