P67 Sabertooth Mobo 1600 or 1866 Mhz Memory

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Kromletch

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My motherboard only supports 1866 Memory up to 32GB.

Currently I have G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
Timing 8-8-8-24
Which currently are $74.00.


I'm mainly looking at these two ram choices.
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866
Timing 9-10-9-28
Currently $153

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600
Timing 9-9-9
Currently $150

I'm trying to decide on which ram ultimately would be best for my system.

On one hand I could purchase another set of 8GB(2x4) of my current ram. but I know eventually in the computers life I will get 32 GB of ram. So I may as well get the upgrade of 2X8Gb sticks to save money long run while still expanding my memory.

This leaves me with two choices regarding G Skill, 1600 or 1866.
If my motherboard supports only up to 1866 will there be any point to overclock a native 1866 stick? If not will there be no difference for me in getting a 1600 stick vs an 1866 stick if I can overclock a 1600 to 1866(I have never overclocked my memory, but would be glad to learn and cant imagine its too difficult)

Otherwise looking at the timings I understand how they work but what I don't understand is Why Some have 4 Timings and others have 3.

Any responses are greatly appreciated.

Thank you
 
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OCing it would provide wider bandwidth, which equates to slightly better performance as long as you don't have to loosen the timings too much, i.e. 1866/8 sticks OCed to to 2133/9 generally give a slight increase, however if you have to raise the CL to 10 at 2133, you might see a slight decrease
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Tradesman1

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What CPU? if a K model, then should be able to handle up through 1866 or even 2133 (yes I know it says 1866, but 2133 runs fine, not sure why they put this 1866 on the Sabertooths, they did the same on the Z77 ST and even on the latest Z87 Sabertooth and I've run 2400 on both with XMP
 
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Kromletch

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But know have run the higher?

I still need to know if I will see a benefit in buying native 1866 ram and over clocking up to 2133 even though my motherboard supports only 1866. Is this how ram works. Why would it say that if it was irrelevant?
 
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OCing it would provide wider bandwidth, which equates to slightly better performance as long as you don't have to loosen the timings too much, i.e. 1866/8 sticks OCed to to 2133/9 generally give a slight increase, however if you have to raise the CL to 10 at 2133, you might see a slight decrease
 
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I don't see a reason at all to upgrade to 16gb's unless you are gaming in sli/cfx, or using memory intensive SW. Without knowing exactly what your doing it's hard to say. Given you already 8gb's why not another two sticks of G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
Timing 8-8-8-24. The only downside i can see is in oc'ing, that two sticks are better than four.
 
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Kromletch

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Well honestly sometimes I have world of tanks open Photoshop and perhaps bf4 and whatever else, then i start running into my ram cap. Im using Samsung ssd as well and don't really want to close anything if I don't have too :/. So with everything I am running it does get pretty memory intensive.

This is my thinking on getting 2x8Gb ram and in the future I can further upgrade.

I just thought due to motherboard architecture I wouldn't be able to go over 1866mhz and if I did it would be a bottleneck
 
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While we are discussing the subject, I personally have never overclocked my memory, how severe is the risk factor vs gains? Could i brick my mobo?

I think I will get the 1866Mhz Then and overclock from there.
 
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Generally if it can't OC it just doesn't start and returns everything to default, as long as nothing really dumb is done there's very little chance of bricking the mobo, i.e. don't set DRAM voltage to whatever the highest allowable is, everything is taken in small steps, i.e. 1866/9 stick - to OC try taking to 2133, and raise each of the base timings by 1 (if spec is 8-8-8-24 try 9-9-9-25) and generally add + 0.05 to DRAM voltage
 
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