1866 at CAS 10 or 1600 at CAS 9

cbarkachi

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I'm almost done with my build, just need to buy memory, a hard drive, and power supply: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3nWnS

I just need to know which is better at 8GB: 1866 at CAS 10 or 1600 at CAS 9

(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104422&clickid=3RNWDqQMCQsyUAsUAKzxiz8fUkTQJLUNu3fvXA0&iradid=97618&ircid=2106&irpid=79301&nm_mc=AFC-IR&cm_mmc=AFC-IR-_-na-_-na-_-na)

or 1600 at CAS 9 (http://www.outletpc.com/wf6565-g-skill-ares-lp-2x4gb-ddr3-1600-ram.html?utm_source=wf6565-g-skill-ares-lp-2x4gb-ddr3-1600-ram&utm_medium=shopping%2Bengine&utm_campaign=pcpartpicker&utm_content=Gskill%2B-%2BMemory%20%28RAM%29%20%3E%20Desktop%20-%20DDR3%20Memory)

*The 1600 is actually 67.99 at Newegg but the picture sucks on their website.

Personally, the G.Skill one looks cooler and has a better reputation in my opinion as a memory brand but I'm not going to base my decision based on appearance.
 
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I vote 1866 @ CAS 10.
I only went that route because my AMD 8320 supports up to 1866 RAM.

Also, if you look on Intel's website, that processor's memory controller only goes up to 1600.
Intel® Core™ i5-4670K Processor

What also counts in this case is Dual channel, triple channel or fixed mode for memory types.

cbarkachi

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Thank you! I completely didn't notice that, and pcpartpicker didn't either I guess? I was kind of hoping I could go with the 1600 because of looks (stupid me :p) and now I will.

As a side note, is being voted as best solution similar to Yahoo Answer's best answer? In other words, does it count for anything?
 

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Unfortunately, I made this thread a discussion. Is there a way I can change to answer-solution?
 

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But you're talking about synthetic tests, in gaming, what am I getting? 1 FPS gain?
 

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No not talking synthetic tests, gaming (which wasn't mentioned or if so I missed it) in the original thread asked which is best, the 1866 is - in gaming maybe 2-4 FPS as gaming primarily uses the DRAM as conduit for data, so in gaming you'll have a better feed to your GPU, in other things like multi-tasking, imaging, video (i.e.e if you stream your games and/or record), VMs, etc is where the wider bandwidth plays in...synthetics and BMs are similar to gaming, the rig is doing a single thing basically so very little difference between 1600 - 1866