12GB 1600Mhz or 8GB 1833Mhz?

donmildreone · Sep 1, 2013

Title says it all really. They're about the same price.

I'll be gaming and using photoshop and lightroom.

ACTechy · Sep 1, 2013

I could be totally off here, but I don't think you would ever really notice the speed difference in the usage scenarios you mentioned, especially when either option is a lot of RAM...so I would go with more.

daswilhelm · Sep 1, 2013

since you do photoshop and such, then go for the 12gig. the speed difference is barely existent.

k1114 · Sep 1, 2013

I hope that's not a tri channel kit if your cpu is dual channel.

edogawa · Sep 1, 2013

16Gb of 1600/1866 would be ideal. Photoshop can use a lot of memory, although it depends on what exactly you will be doing, if it's just light editing to photos get 8GB of 1600/1866.

You won't notice much a difference past 1600mhz except in certain situations in real world usage.

Tradesman1 · Sep 1, 2013

With Photoshop/lightroom etc, having excess DRAM is not a drawback and higher freq DRAM is often extremely productive, if you work with these a lot (and depending on your hardware (which we don't know) I'd suggest 12 GB for a tri-channel rig (X58 based) or 16GB in 2 x8 if the mobo supports it, for a dual channel (most anything else except for X79)

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