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July 26, 2014 12:59:08 AM

16G Kit 2400 (8Gx2) G.Skill-Ares vs G.Skill Sniper vs G.Skill Trident-X vs Kingston-Beast
(^These are the ones I've been looking at)

This is my balance system, used for video render, photoshop stuff, FL studio, file storage, occasional small scale server hosting and video games

Looking for some better speeds in general. I run win7 pro and the ram usage is crazy annoying so I need to upgrade regardless (generally run out of available RAM when multitasking). this is a one year old system and will probably stick with Win7pro unless you can recommend other OS's that can run most of the same applications

I heard getting a lower CAS latency can improve speeds and that higher frequencies like to have higher latency, but faster frequencies are obviously faster, what do you guys think?

i7-4770K
MSI Z87-GD65
Gigabyte GTX-770
Thermaltake EVO blue -750W (+80 gold)
WD Green 4tb (2x2Tb)
Samsung 840BW EVO SSD
G.Skill Sniper 2133MHz 8gb kit (2x4Gb)
Coolermaster Hyper-212X

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July 26, 2014 1:18:43 AM

Well, if you're going with G-skill the Trident-X is obviously higher end than the Sniper or the Ares. Yes you're correct that lower latency is faster, and higher frequency is also faster. In terms of the games, you won't see hardly any speed improvements in games with higher clocked RAM, but you may see benefit in some of your other uses. Since it sounds like you're using a lot of RAM I'd go with a 32GB kit of 2133 or 2400.
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July 26, 2014 1:20:51 AM

I'd go for 2133MHz RAM and as you said, get the lowest cas you can. I'd get one of the G.Skills.
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July 26, 2014 4:45:02 AM

drumminandstuff93 said:
Well, if you're going with G-skill the Trident-X is obviously higher end than the Sniper or the Ares. Yes you're correct that lower latency is faster, and higher frequency is also faster. In terms of the games, you won't see hardly any speed improvements in games with higher clocked RAM, but you may see benefit in some of your other uses. Since it sounds like you're using a lot of RAM I'd go with a 32GB kit of 2133 or 2400.


Thanks for the info, but could you elaborate a little bit? What would you get and to what purpose? I found two prices on 2133 and 2400 MHz freq. but both are the same price so it's broken my pre-existing notion of the latest technologies are more expensive. Either that or they're both so similar it's hard to tell them apart.
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July 26, 2014 7:32:07 AM

If you want to understand RAM you're going to have to do you're own research. It's quite complex when you get into the in's and out's of it. The Trident X is a higher quality RAM and will overclock better than the Sniper or the Ares. The speed that RAM is advertised at is the factory overclock that the company selling it can guarantee, but it is not necessarily the fastest speed the RAM can reach. You need to enable XMP to get those speeds. XMP is basically an overclocking profile and while it's easiest just to enable XMP and not worry about manual overclocking, you can actually tweak the RAM to run faster than the speeds it is sold at.
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July 26, 2014 5:42:08 PM

Basically what you look at is as freqs go higher, for every clock cycle it can handle more DRAM at a time (so you have wider bandwidth)...i.e. 2133 handles (theoretically up to 17000 M/Ts (roughly megabytes per cycle) where the 2400 sticks can handle up to about 19200 M/Ts....You also want a good combo of freq to CL i.e. say the Tridents at 2400/10 will outperform a 2133/9 set by a little, and by even more if the 2133 sticks have a looser CL of say 10 or 11...You'll generally find that the Tridents have the lowest CLs normally available in any given freq (like the 2400/10 mentioned or 2133/9, 1866/8, 1600/7 or up to 2666/11, 2800/12, etc), they are great sticks, my favorites, use them in my builds as well as most all my client builds (they also have OC headroom)
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July 26, 2014 9:58:57 PM

^RAM Master
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