I have looking to upgrading my gaming rig and have been putting it off until the new kabylake cpus come out.Well, they're out now. so I am going to upgrade within weeks.
I am looking to replace cpu,motherboard,ram. I don't need gpu because I already upgraded to a msi 1060. Also,I am keeping my ssd and hard drives.
Do you need that fast of RAM? At that price, I would want 16GB for sure. Here is slightly slower at 3600 but with better timings for $25 more to get 16GB instead of 8GB.
Or there are several options for 16GB DDR4 3200 for $100. That would be my suggestion at least.
From what I've seen, looks like 3000MHz is the sweet spot for performance boost / price. Check out this set on pcpartpicker, see what's good around you price-wise.
RAM is RAM. It's one of the worst places to spend extra for performance. Just get a competitively-priced kit with heat spreaders that won't interfere with your CPU cooler.
RAM is RAM. It's one of the worst places to spend extra for performance. Just get a competitively-priced kit with heat spreaders that won't interfere with your CPU cooler.
With DDR4 its sort of a different story. With DDR3 1600mhz was the real sweet spot with ram speed. Anything above that would either have to be drastically faster or you had to be using a ram loving program to see any real benefits.
With DDR4 we are still trying to find that sweet spot for speed, timings, and voltage.
The other issue is that with ddr3, you would have to spend an extra few bucks to go from 1600 to 1866mhz ram. With ddr4 you can spend an extra few bucks and go from 2133 to 3000mhz+.
3000 Mhz is more then fast enough and unless you are doing editing of some sort you are not going to notice any major gains with faster RAM
I feel like Kingston are more conservative wih their RAM then most other brands and a 3000 MHz kit from Kingston could probably be clocked faster
I like conservative because i will take overhead and longer lifespan any day of the week vs being on the very edge of what things can withstand.
Brand doesn't matter much when concerning RAM. Performance is very comparable across all brands. I'm personally partial to Mushkin, but I'm likely getting a Kingston kit whenever I modernize my setup. I just don't like the look of G Skill heat spreaders.
Brand doesn't matter much when concerning RAM. Performance is very comparable across all brands. I'm personally partial to Mushkin, but I'm likely getting a Kingston kit whenever I modernize my setup. I just don't like the look of G Skill heat spreaders.
I like Mushkin as well my first DDR3 kit was triple channel kit i had back in 2010
They pulled out of the EU a short while after so Mushking has been unavailable here ever since.
Faster the speed is better when balanced iirc. 3200c14 and 3600c15 are balanced and fast kits I think. You might be able to buy a 2x8gb 3200c16 kit for about $100 and manually set it to cas 14 which is cheaper than finding a 3200c14 kit. The thing about high speed ram is it is dependent on the rest of your systems bottlenecks in if you even need the amount of bandwidth your ram provides.
Edit: using a 1060 to push 1080p you probably won't see big benefits from high speed ddr4.
3000 Mhz is more then fast enough and unless you are doing editing of some sort you are not going to notice any major gains with faster RAM
I feel like Kingston are more conservative wih their RAM then most other brands and a 3000 MHz kit from Kingston could probably be clocked faster
I like conservative because i will take overhead and longer lifespan any day of the week vs being on the very edge of what things can withstand.
Don't worry too much about timings. You won't see much of a boost in performance from great timings and you have to pay way too much to get them. I speak from experience.
Those are Predator and not Savage
Predator have taller heatsinks on them so if you have an air cooler with very low clearance you might have a problem.
As far as I'm aware timings are less important than speed to cas as I've pointed out 3000c12 is better than 3200c14. This has to do with not being able to complete partial cycles so it rounds up skipping a beat. I think this is all dependent on your systems bottlenecks so a 1080 should see more gains than a 1070 or 1060.
3200c16 is less expensive but also less likely to reach 3000c12 compared to 3200c14 kits as far as I'm aware.
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