1600Mhz vs 2400Mhz for Haswell?

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lakz

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I'm putting together a work station for my girlfriend who's a graphic designer. She'll mostly work on Illustrator, Photoshop, and handle a huge collection of fonts (which is surprisingly demanding on my current system : 5.2Ghz Sandy Bridge under water).

I'm looking at the DDR3, and see no price difference between the 1600Mhz and 2400Mhz. So I was naturally going to go with the higher frequency, but I read that Haswell doesn't overclock well with high frequency RAM. Am I likely to hit a wall trying to push a i5-4670K with a 2400mhz kit?

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Haswell OCs fine with high freq DRAM and besides 2400 isn't really all that high for Haswell, I've got 32GB of 2666 on my 4770K and it runs at 4.6 24/7, moving upmight inhibit the OC a bit. I'd go with the 2400 sticks, and if not the Ripjaws, look at the Snipers or the Tridents
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It is possible that it can prevent a maximum OC on the CPU yes. But you can always OC the CPU first, and then if the memory won't run at 2400, run it slower and tighten the timings instead. If the faster memory is the same price there isn't really any downside in getting it, as of course you don't have to run it at its fastest rate.
 
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Haswell OCs fine with high freq DRAM and besides 2400 isn't really all that high for Haswell, I've got 32GB of 2666 on my 4770K and it runs at 4.6 24/7, moving upmight inhibit the OC a bit. I'd go with the 2400 sticks, and if not the Ripjaws, look at the Snipers or the Tridents
 
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