- Dec 26, 2013
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I currently have an Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard and a AMD FX 8350 CPU. I'm looking to purchase ram for this system and the more I read, the more I get confused, I've gathered that I want dual channel and not quad channel? I've also read that you should go with 2 stick over 4, however I saw a post saying 2x8gb will heavily load the memory controller? I will NOT be overclocking but I will be using this for heavy gaming over long periods of time and I am hoping to have this system for many years before I upgrade again. I know 16gb is overkill for a gaming rig, but I want it, and I like the G.Skill ram (no real reason other than I have read it handles AMD CPU's nicely). I have narrowed it down to 3 possible ram packages but I'm not sure which one to order and I don't want to order the wrong one. So my question is which ram package would you recommend and why? If these choices are completely wrong, feel free to yell at me and suggest something else, please! 
G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GSR
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C9D-16GZH
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBSR1
Thank you!
G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GSR
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C9D-16GZH
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBSR1
Thank you!
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