Needs Review Corsair VS Kingston

Hi guys. i want to upgrade my laptop RAM. i got 2 items here n very very confuse, i need your help to review n compare it.

Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB (8GB kit) @1866 Mhz CL 10 without heat spreader

VS

Kingston HyperX 2x4GB (8GB kit) @1866 Mhz CL 11 with heat spreader

which is better n i should buy ?? thx a lot before guys

my laptop

Sager OEM NP5165
Intel Core i7 2720
500GB HD
NVIDIA GT555M
RAM --> Still Confuse which one i should buy, Corsair vengeance 2x4 @1866 or Kingston HyperX PnP 2x4 @1866

 

Cheaper one. and 1866Mhz? You sure you buying laptop rams though?

 

Yea, I didn't think laptop RAM has heat spreaders...

Plus RAM = RAM. As baiii said, go with the cheapest option and make sure it's laptop RAM.

 

Some laptop RAM has heat spreaders like Kingston HyperX:

 

Neither. Just get 8 GB of DDR3-1333 as it will be much cheaper. The only speed difference comes in synthetic benchmarks. Use the money you save toward an SSD, which will provide a much more noticeable boost.

 

They do have the aforementioned laptop ram for sale on Newegg, and the reviews are tempting as their WEI all get up to !7.9!. According to (I would say 75%) reviews, they noticed noticeable performance boost.

Personally, I dont buy that , I think it is more about they are not using their pagefile any more.

 

All the pros and cons aside, just to answer your question:

The Corsair are a bit faster out of the box because of their lower timings (CL10 > CL11)

For people who are into making the best (tweaking) out of what they paid for that maybe different:

Then the Kingston run CL9 (9-10-9-27), we have yet to see how the Corsair would do after some treatment, but i guess they would do even better.

 

my laptop

Sager OEM NP5165
Intel Core i7 2720
500GB HD
NVIDIA GT555M
RAM --> Still Confuse which one i should buy, Corsair vengeance 2x4 @1866 or Kingston HyperX PnP 2x4 @1866

THX to all for the suggestion

 

Get the Kingston PNP kit. They will install and run at 1866 for you without additional work

 

They both are plug and play and will run@1866mhz... neither of them has XMP profiles...the Corsair are a bit faster and are about 20USD cheaper...take your own pick

BTW: Also both have heat-spreaders!