I purchased ddr3 2133 2x8 gig, did i make a good decision

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DrBackwater

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I'm building a work station, but after purchasing a intel product (4930k) for more efficiancy with xmp profiles, plus the compatible board, i assumed 2133 drr3 would be perfect.

(was i soo wrong)

From my experience if someone can correct me, (hoping) that anything above 1800 will degradate my cpu life expectancy, becuase most intel cpu's cannot support 2133 or more on dual channel (32gig ram 2133+) due to many reasons, instability and the risk of heat.

So what will ddr4 support?

Any hows, so ddr3 1600 might be the safest way to go, as i can use more ram later on with stable load.

So that comes to my final question?

4 gig ddr3 2133 vs 8 gig ddr3 2133

If I used all the lanes on my motherboard by 32 gig rather 64 gig, that would still mean instability as 4gigs using 2133.

Would 1600 frequency on 8gig be better way to go

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Do lots with my rigs and generally always have a few things going on, people don't know DRAM and what you can do with it or what it can do for you, on my Haswell got what I could afford, since then I've run the 32GB of 2800 sticks with no problem, many 3770K can handle 32GB of 2666, a good 3570K can handle 32 of 2400 sticks as can many 2600Ks, the 2500K about tops out at 2133
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2133MHz is good.

2133MHz will NOT degrade the lifetime of your CPU.

Intel CPU's can support ram past 1866MHz.

4930K is socket 2011, therefore it is quad channel, not dual channel.

2133MHz is not unstable, or overly hot.

DDR4 will be similar, however it will have higher frequencies, and lower power requirements.

There will be no stability difference between 32GB and 64GB

1600MHz would not be any better than 2133MHz, in fact it would be slower (not really noticably though)
 
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Yay, few i thought i made a bad investment, was going to return them for 4 gig sticks.

So 8gig 2133 are fine, or is it just 8 gig isn't advised on 2133. but 4 gigs.

Okay. well i guess i'll get some trident 2133 4gigs then.
 
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2133 is fine and will want your DRAM in a 4 stick set (unless going 64GB then 8 stick set) so you can utilize quad channel...have yet to see and Intel CPU have it's life degraded from DRAM that goes above their 'rated' freq, including CPUs from back around 2007 that are and have been happily chugging away with high CPU OCs as well as DRAM rated far above the Intel rating, in fact even since the i3, i5, i7s have appears (through Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell have basically only used 1866 and up (generally 2133 and up since the IB release), on 32GB rigs my SB 2500K runs 32 GB of 2133 RJ Xs, my IB 3570K runs 32GB of Gskill 2400 Tridents, and my Haswell has 32GB of 2666 Tridents - for your rig if thinking 32GB would look to the GSkill RipJaws Z in 2133 or 2400 or the Tridents, both are great sets for the X79 mobo/CPU combos
 
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Ohhh :(

I see, few thank goodness. but they are not cheap ddr3 2133 really expensive.

Hope i made a good investment on my trident 8 gig dim varient.
 
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which ddr3 or ddr4 :D

( how do you hav it up soo high 32GB 2666 GSkill Trident)

Is that the power of haswell.

 
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Do lots with my rigs and generally always have a few things going on, people don't know DRAM and what you can do with it or what it can do for you, on my Haswell got what I could afford, since then I've run the 32GB of 2800 sticks with no problem, many 3770K can handle 32GB of 2666, a good 3570K can handle 32 of 2400 sticks as can many 2600Ks, the 2500K about tops out at 2133
 
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