Upgrading from 12GB to 24 GB ram

I currently have 12 gigs of ram and I want to upgrade to 24 gb.
My system is working great and fast with Premiere CS5 with the Mercury Playback Engine, but I want improvement in AE CS5
I have a similar question in the Adobe Hardware forum but I figured since it is Aftereffects I want to see my performance improvement I should ask it here too.
Here are my current specs:
Intel Core i7 CPU X 908@ 3.33GHz
ASUS P6X58D Premium - LGA 1366 motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WSHXQ2/ref=oss_product
My current memory is 12 gig of Corsair CMD12GX3M6A1600C8 Dominator 12 GB PC3-12800
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QSHG7O/ref=oss_product
There are no more slots to add memory (of course!).
So I would need a complete 24 memory kit and will need to ebay I guess the 12 gig kit.
On the aftereffects forum someone mentioned they are buying/considering 24GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics& field-keywords=24GB+Kingston+HyperX+DDR3+1600+&x=0&y=0
I would appreciate any suggestions for brand and "model" of memory to buy.
Thanks
Rowby

Fair enough. I would rather attribute that to some exotic branding in the BIOS or possibly Dell using a custom built mobo sub-series that only supports this and that, though. I've never had any of those problems, but of course, given that my life might depend on a working production machine, I wouldn't be miserly about spending 20 Euros on a tested brand product over a no name product.
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I am thinking of upgrading my system from 12 gig to 24 gig memory. Not so much for Premiere but I am starting to do work in After Effects. and it is SOOOO SLOW, especially in Ram previews.
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