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Ray Whittington

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This is the system I'm looking at building, but I'm kinda stuck.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Q0d2

I'm looking at a couple of different options but I wanted to know roughly what would be better for me. Should I get like 2X4GB sticks or 2X8GB sticks? Now at later I'll double what I have meaning having 4X4GB or 4X8GB sticks. But is 32GB overkill and I'd be better off with 16GB with a faster speed or a slower speed but more. If this makes any sense.

These are the sticks I was thinking of.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32133c11d16gxl
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http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32133c10d8gxm
 
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Tradesman1
Either/or will work, I'd go the 16GB now, prices aren't going to go down, not with production down some as they gear up for DDR4, and games are increasingly using DRAM more and more efficiently, a tell tale is usually what prebuilt computers have, they are generally a step behind enthusiast and gamers n what they come with and these days most have minimum of 6-8 GB and are seeing more and more w/ 16GB, if looking beyond keeping this for 6months to a year then 16GB is the way to go
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Depends on what you want to use that PC for.
If you want it for games or general usage 32GB is overkill. Currently even 16GB is overkill for that and probably for next few years will be. So unless you know you will need 32GB I would set 16GB as limit.


2x8 GB give you 16GB now with option to upgrade later, but not really needed.
2x4 GB give you 8GB which should be enough and option to upgrade to 16GB if you find that you need it. Risk is that you wont find matching rams later. (you can mix different rams but it may have compatibility issues).

If you decide to go with 16GB both options are viable. But 2x8GB give you lower chance for compatibility issues and in theory should be little less burden on system (just 2 sticks draining power instead of 4 and producing heat). And if you would decide later, it still leave you opened path to 32GB if you ever need it.

In terms of speed, you can pretty much choose any of current rams as that motherboard have high support for OC.
2133-2400 should be nice mid OC with good results.
 
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Either/or will work, I'd go the 16GB now, prices aren't going to go down, not with production down some as they gear up for DDR4, and games are increasingly using DRAM more and more efficiently, a tell tale is usually what prebuilt computers have, they are generally a step behind enthusiast and gamers n what they come with and these days most have minimum of 6-8 GB and are seeing more and more w/ 16GB, if looking beyond keeping this for 6months to a year then 16GB is the way to go
 
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