Is HyperX Blu 1600mHz any good

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Hi guys,

I want to build myself a good gaming rig, but also capable of handling my school programs such as AutoCAD, Matlab, etc. Right now I bought an i7-4770k with a Noctua NH-D14 for cooling with maximus Hero VI with a gtx 760 that I'm planning to ditch when the 800 series come out.
In my mind ram is ram, and doesn't affect much in my case so I was considering the hyperx blu 16gb at 1600mHz. Is it a good idea? I'm going to overclock my cpu to make it "future-proof".
 
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As long as you do not plan to overclock the RAM, it should. If you do plan to then I have no idea since I don't OC and Kingston have rarely if ever been favorites for OCing. Since performance gains from OCing the RAM are so small unless you are using the IGP, it isn't really worth bothering unless you have excess change burning holes through your pockets.

The only way to be 100% certain that a given DIMM configuration is supposed to work before buying is to stick to DIMM models on the motherboard's QVL or motherboards on the DIMM's motherboard QVL. In general though, just about all retail DIMMs and motherboards are at least compliant with the...
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Overclocking the i7-4770k will give you about 10% extra performance without much effort and 20% if you are lucky which is not going to "futureproof" you much.

I have no idea how much overclock margin there is on Kingston Blue (not really important for CPU overclocking on K-chips since you can simply raise the CPU multiplier without affecting the RAM clock) but I have 4x8GB (32GB) on my i5-3470 and they work fine at 1600-9-9-9 @ 1.5V.
 
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So, to make thing clear, you're saying the hyperx blu is going to be fine with my setup? Because I've done some research and I've never seen it suggested for any setup watsoever, but it is one of the cheapest I could find.
 
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As long as you do not plan to overclock the RAM, it should. If you do plan to then I have no idea since I don't OC and Kingston have rarely if ever been favorites for OCing. Since performance gains from OCing the RAM are so small unless you are using the IGP, it isn't really worth bothering unless you have excess change burning holes through your pockets.

The only way to be 100% certain that a given DIMM configuration is supposed to work before buying is to stick to DIMM models on the motherboard's QVL or motherboards on the DIMM's motherboard QVL. In general though, just about all retail DIMMs and motherboards are at least compliant with the baseline JEDEC DDR3 specifications and that covers 95+% of all possible combinations.
 
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Actually the mobo QVLs are pretty worthless, unless you are just wondering if the sticks will run at the mobos default of 1333 or so, see here:

http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=10566
 
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IIRC, Asus' QVL on some motherboard models goes up to 2400MT/s but at 2133+, several models are limited to two DIMMs as far as the QVL is concerned.
 
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