

Overall Review: The packaging is pretty bad - you have to pull and pry so hard to extract the sticks from the package that at one point I was actually concerned about bending/cracking the FRP circuit boards or SMD joints. And at the reasonable price that The Egg sells this for, it's basically a no-brainer.Ĭons: Nothing at all Con about the memory. The extra cache memory that you get with the additional 8GB (that reads at 24GB/sec) makes a HUGE difference for many types of memory-hogging tasks, such as photo and video editing. Well, for many tasks it makes an easily-perceived difference, even with an SSD system drive that reads at 500MB/sec.

You might think "Why does anyone need 16GB of RAM, isn't 8 enough?". Read and write speed vary with block size, but for typical sized transfers this i7-3610QM/HM77-based system achieves 13GB/sec writes and 24GB/sec reads. At nominal speed (which is the only option in the HP dv7t-7000 series I installed it in) it sets up as 11-11-11-28-1T.
