Wasting money on RAM?

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So, i want to go with a i5 4670K Processor, the recommended RAM is 1333 or 1600mhz

But my MOBO (Msi g45 gaming) accepts even 2133mhz RAM

Would i be wasting money getting the 2133mhz ram instead of the recommended 1600mhz? Any risk for my setup by not sticking to the recomended?
 
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Tradesman1
No you wouldn't be wasting money, Haswell scales very well to DRAM, better than the previous CPU gens and even they benefited from faster DRAM - too many people still say fast DRAM is of no benefit, because of other things they have no idea about DRAM...here's a good article on memory scaling and it does really go far enough in depth but can provide some good insight...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell

So, yes, looking at 2133 would be a good idea ;)
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No you wouldn't be wasting money, Haswell scales very well to DRAM, better than the previous CPU gens and even they benefited from faster DRAM - too many people still say fast DRAM is of no benefit, because of other things they have no idea about DRAM...here's a good article on memory scaling and it does really go far enough in depth but can provide some good insight...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell

So, yes, looking at 2133 would be a good idea ;)
 
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