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Review on Corsair CMV4GX3M1C1600C11 Select 1600MHz Unbuffered by Chris Mania

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Normal for the right GPU/task

This RAM is fine if you buy it for the right purpose. When I was assembling my first computer as a beginner, I accidentally bought some laptop RAM. Wanting to quickly assemble my machine, I went to the store and bought a DDR3 version (not DDR3L). Without knowing it, this bottle completely blocked my GTX 1060. I had 50-60fps in GTA V on Medium and Low and 20fps in Just Cause 3. I recently bought a Corsair LPX and since then it has doubled the performance for GTA V and is 4x faster than Just Cause 3. This RAM is incredibly slow for gaming BUT if you have a weak system it's great. I recently gifted it to a friend with an AMD R7 360 and it has greatly improved its performance. So if you have a high end GPU (950 or higher) don't take it, but if you have a low end GPU it's perfect for the task (I appreciate Corsair as a brand but they should make it clear that it's for budget systems so like back then I really didn't know much about assembling computers and I thought my computer was terrible for the 1000 euros I spent on the thread)

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