building gaming pc need help with ram

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meteora881

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he is my build if that will help in determing which ram to get http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4J3KK8
which ram should i choose?

2400

cas 11 1.65 v
cas 10 1.65 v

2133

cas 11 1.5v
cas 9 1.65v
cas 10 1.6v
cas 11 1.6v

2000

cas 9 1.5v

1866

cas 9 1.5v
cas10 1.5v
cas 8 1.5v



or should i choose from something from the 1600?
 
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Should be a good rig, if in budget I'd go the 2400/10...the CPU is rated up to 1600 at stock - in DRAM 1600/9 is considered entry level - for performance DRAM look at 1866/8, 2133/9 or 2400/10 (or higher 2666/11, etc) For most people 2133/9 is the sweet spot for overall use, if you are heavily into multi-tasking (numerous apps/windows open), do video, imaging, CAD, VMs, etc that is where high freq DRAM will shine, most people look at Bench Marks and conclude faster DRAM isn't useful - thing is benchmarks are doing a single thing, so yes the increases are minimal, when doing multiple things or using memory intensive apps and large data sets, that's where the increases come as the higher freqs have more bandwidth and can work with more...
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 EXTREME4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($143.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.99 @ Micro Center)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3GB DirectCU II Video Card ($509.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($19.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $1332.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-03 18:57 EDT-0400

Nowadays, 2x4GB RAM is more than enough for gaming. A recommended speed would be 1600Mhz with a CAS of 9, with that processor, try to keep the voltage below 1.5V.

In this list I added dual-channel RAM and a better power supply.
 
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well it realy depens on what you going to do exalie i have 800 hz the work fine only i think 1 is broken XDD but for hard core gamer evry fps couds gaming i woud go whit 2400 for normal gaming 2000 and evry thing els 800 or 1800
 
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kunthakenthe

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get a different psu i heard those have bad quality parts. 2400 ram actually has LESS performance than 2133 ram since its fast speed but high latency cancel out.1866-2133 ram is a good for haswell dont worry your self about Cas timings to much either .
 
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It actually depends on the mobo.lt will say like 1600/1866/2133/2400(o.c) (o.c means overclock.)
 
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Should be a good rig, if in budget I'd go the 2400/10...the CPU is rated up to 1600 at stock - in DRAM 1600/9 is considered entry level - for performance DRAM look at 1866/8, 2133/9 or 2400/10 (or higher 2666/11, etc) For most people 2133/9 is the sweet spot for overall use, if you are heavily into multi-tasking (numerous apps/windows open), do video, imaging, CAD, VMs, etc that is where high freq DRAM will shine, most people look at Bench Marks and conclude faster DRAM isn't useful - thing is benchmarks are doing a single thing, so yes the increases are minimal, when doing multiple things or using memory intensive apps and large data sets, that's where the increases come as the higher freqs have more bandwidth and can work with more at once
 
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kunthakenthe

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i see why you got memory badge
 
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Been interested in it for too many years, really got my attention back with the 286 computers in late 80's when Lotus open the Expanded Memory Standard and then I found you could open up the memory address E000-EFFF to open the page frame for Extended memory, then really got interested about 2006/2007, worked with a couple groups trying to set records on the 3DBenchmarks about the time the Q6600 hit the market and SLI was becoming a big thing, the 8800GTX was the big dog of GPUs then and the Asus Striker 775 mobos
 
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nice man experience. The gtx 8800's a beast lol.They had thier day
 
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