compu85

Hello everybody!

I bought a stick of memory (Kingston 2GB DDR2 800 mhz) and here is its part number: KVR800D2N6/2G

I want to install it on a new PC that I have built it few days ago (Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor E7500 2.93 GHz) + (Intel Motherboard DG41TY).

So as you can notice that it is a cl6 ram, and I know that the cl5 will give me a bit more performance (2-4 %), but the local seller does not have any cl5 sticks.

So I visited Kingston website to see the difference in prices between the cl5 and the cl6, and surprisingly the price is exactly the same for both the KVR800D2N5/2G and KVR800D2N6/2G.

I then visited the websites of some other memory manufacturers, and I found that the difference in prices is very very small (zero, one or at max two dollars).

So this is really weird !!! Why do Kingston and others manufacture cl6 memory sticks if they are going to sell the cl5 at the same price (if the reason was commercial then they will sell them at different prices)?

Is there any advantage for cl6 over the cl5 (like a 1% stability increase or any other thing...)? I really feel unsatisfied, do you think that I should return it to the seller, and search for a cl5 stick?