RAM opinions-8gb @2133 or 12gb @1600?

kiaff75 · Jul 6, 2013

Im currently running 8 gb of corsair vengence red @2133MHz but have 2 spare 4gb sticks of patriot signature @ 1600MHz. One of the patriot sticks is no good though so my question is-keep the 8gb @ 2133 or go 12gb @ 1600 as I dont think the patriot will handle an overclock to the corsair speed. Opinions please

Gam3r01 · Jul 6, 2013

8 GB is enough for gaming and is fine to stay at that, I would say go for the 12 only if you need the extra ram. Having extra dosent mean much if you dont hit 8 to begin with.

kiaff75 · Jul 6, 2013

That's what I figured since I'm only gaming, no photoshop of cad programs as of yet but I thought I'd ask since I'm still learning

I know windows index means nothing really but what does it take to score 7.9? im @ 7.7 for ram and 7.3 overall with my processor scoring lowest.

AMD fx4300 @ 4.4GHz
Asus m5a99fx mobo
8GB Corsair vengence red @ 2133MHz
Asus AMD HD7870 GPU
Zalman cmps 10x performa cpu coler
Antec 620w high current gamer power suppply
Samsung 840 120GB SSD
1TB HDD
Antec p180 full tower with a few aero shark 120mm high flow fans

Gam3r01 · Jul 6, 2013

kiaff75 :

This is what windows says you need: •A quad-core desktop processor with at least 4 gigahertz (GHz) (with a water cooling kit for overclocking) or a six-core processor

•A socket 1366 motherboard

•A low-voltage desktop memory system with 12 GB of RAM

•A GTX 285 graphics card

•A 256 GB internal solid-state drive in a striped RAID 0 configuration

•A 1000-watt power supply.”

kiaff75 · Jul 7, 2013

That's funny even those requirements wouldn't always hold true as my processor is more than what they want and sits at 7.3. Oh well, I can't wait for steamroller to come out, well see what stupid wie thinks then

Gam3r01 · Jul 7, 2013

Yeah, my guess is that its almost impossible to get up that high. My gpu stomps that gtx, but not according to them! Steamroller will probably max that out.

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