Keatonus

I'm building a comp for my friend with a 955BE and MSI GD70 790FX motherboard. I'm looking into RAM for him, and I'm trying to figure out what's best.

I've heard "AMD likes tight timings" and "1333 with tight timings is better than 1600 with loose timings".

How much truth is there in that? any benchmarks? cause I couldn't find any.

Also whats a great overclocking RAM?

I was looking into
G.SKill Ripjaws 1333:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231276
Mushkin HP 1333:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146868
Mushkin XP 1600:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146871
or Mushkin Redline:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226076

Redlines seem to be the best timings/speed/voltages. And I'm really leaning towards those.

Any opinions?

TheGoat Eater

Read a friends's post at XS->

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=234689

If you are unfamiliar with Chew*, he is a AMD guru (literally) and has encyclopedic knowledge on AMD

to sum it up the *best* ram is the best DDR3 - Elpida MNH-E Hyper... but new MGH-E Hyper should be great too...

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Keatonus

Thanks for the link! I'll give the whole thread a look through.

Keatonus

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820104161

So these are the best RAM as of right now? I wonder how much better they are than Mushkin Redlines.

Acoma_Andy

Well for an AMD system you are better off going with those Redlines, tighter timings at lower speed. Nice set by the way

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TheGoat Eater

the timings aren't the point - the point is the Elpida Hyper ICs play really nice on AM3 were as BBSE doesn't come even close to the Hyper ICs on AM3...

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crunch-

So any other opinions on this? I've heard good and bad things about Elpida but if they go good with AMD then I'll check them out. I just wish that list of DDR3 chips was more up to date. Any other recommendations other than the Kingston HyperX?

Keatonus

Well, I'm going with these. Sean at Mushkin says these are good budget DDR3 RAM they have for AMD, so I take his word for it, they do tight timings and high speed.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146871

If you want something more then he recommends stepping up to these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146777

twich12

what ram should i get for my setup? ive been looking around and i cant decide which ram is best for my setup, i plan on getting new ram because what i have now just isnt making the cut... am i better off getting ram that runs on 1333 mhz?

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Keatonus

the Mushkin 6601's are solid RAM for AMD system. They're in the post above you =]