Hi all. I've been gathering parts for a new build for a little bit now and have reached the point where I'm ready to grab my final pieces of the puzzle and piece it all together. Before the question, here's the main components:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DSR3
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core (G0)
I'm going with stock cooling and stock speeds to start, but I do plan on OC'ing a the crap out it down the road once I get a watercooling setup. My biggest question for right now is what speed ram to go with... My mobo will only support DDR3. That being said, I'm looking at either 4GB of OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333 mhz) or OCZ PC3-12800 (1600 mhz). My mobo claims to support DDR3 oc'd to 1900 mhz.
With the intent of oc'ing shortly down the road, what RAM of those two would be recommended? Would there even be a difference with the Q6600 CPU? I don't want my RAM to be the limiting factor in my performance and I don't want to make a purchase based on the logic "that number is higher so it must be better....."
Colin
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DSR3
CPU: Intel Q6600 Quad Core (G0)
I'm going with stock cooling and stock speeds to start, but I do plan on OC'ing a the crap out it down the road once I get a watercooling setup. My biggest question for right now is what speed ram to go with... My mobo will only support DDR3. That being said, I'm looking at either 4GB of OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333 mhz) or OCZ PC3-12800 (1600 mhz). My mobo claims to support DDR3 oc'd to 1900 mhz.
With the intent of oc'ing shortly down the road, what RAM of those two would be recommended? Would there even be a difference with the Q6600 CPU? I don't want my RAM to be the limiting factor in my performance and I don't want to make a purchase based on the logic "that number is higher so it must be better....."
Colin