Is the G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 Dual Kit with the Intel i7 4770k CPU?

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TheMattleHead

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As the title says, is the G-Skill 8GB Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 Dual Kit with the Intel i7 4770k CPU? as I wanted to get quite a fast set RAM but I wasn't sure if there was any compatibility issues? and would I need to overclock the cpu so that it could use that memory?
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Fast RAM sacrifices latency for frequency. There is no reason to go for 2133 unless you have some highly specific tasks in mind that actually benefit from that clock speed. The 4770k only supports up to 1600mhz anyway as far as I know.
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It all depends on your motherboard. If you can't support the memory or the CPU it won't boot because its not compatible. Look at motherboards such as Gigabyte, MSI, and some others i can't name. Good luck!
 
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Fast RAM sacrifices latency for frequency. There is no reason to go for 2133 unless you have some highly specific tasks in mind that actually benefit from that clock speed. The 4770k only supports up to 1600mhz anyway as far as I know.
 
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I've made a little mistake. I wasn't aware that the official 1600mhz limit is more like a suggestion and the 4770k can easily run much higher speeds. Still, the fact remains that it makes very little difference. If they are the same price you might as well go for 2133. Won't get you any better gaming performance, but it might turn out to be useful in certain applications. If it is much more expensive go with 1866 or 1600. You can spend a lot of time thinking about memory speeds and latency, but in the end you won't notice a difference.
 
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Yes fast DRAM is worth it, especially with Haswell:

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

With 2133 sets look for a CL of 9, which is much faster than the entry level 1600/9 sets. As far as gaming - might see a gain of 2-3 FPS, but fast DRAM shows more with multi-tasking, numerous open Windows, imaging, video work, VMs and other memory intensive apps as well as when working w/ large data sets by utilizing it's much wider bandwidth
 
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OnkelCannabia

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That link supports exactly what I said. In "CPU Real World" and dedicated graphic card settings there is no clear winner. In many occasions 1600/9 wins against the high end RAM. The only part where high frequency RAM has a clear edge is in synthetic benchmarks and with IGP.
 
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There is if you really use the rig, one thing I like to do with clients is have them use a rig (as they normally would for awhile) then tell them I want to change a couple things and then have them work with it again - they don't know what I've done (simply changing DRAM) but about 85% + of the time they like the set up with the faster DRAM asit's "faster', 'snappier', or whatever.........this is especially true with folks that do a lot of video, imaging, multi tasking, etc......if all that's done is simple BMs then no there will be little difference, or in gaming, where DRAM is primarily nothing more than a data conduit
 
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