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Laurentiu Suciu

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I have recently bought a MOBO: ASrock H97 Pro4.
It says it can support up to 32GB, so now my questions is which is the best 8GB or 16GB type of memory i can stick in and at which speed should it be ?

HyperX Fury Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit
Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel kit Rev A

What is the difference between 1600 mhz and there after 1866 ?
Thank you!
 
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In 1600 a CL9 set would provide a slight performance increase over CL10 - the Furys though are plug and Play meaning you don't have to set anything up, the Corsair are simply enable XMP to set up. As far as 1866 and up the higher freqs provide more bandwidth, hence a little better performance wise, but the freq you choose in large part depends on the CPU and if it can carry the higher freq
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In 1600 a CL9 set would provide a slight performance increase over CL10 - the Furys though are plug and Play meaning you don't have to set anything up, the Corsair are simply enable XMP to set up. As far as 1866 and up the higher freqs provide more bandwidth, hence a little better performance wise, but the freq you choose in large part depends on the CPU and if it can carry the higher freq
 
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It all depends on what you do and how you do it...Was just pointing out that yes, there are performance differences and which is better, no one said anything about large or huge differences that would be overly noticeable.
 
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Man, I am not going to debate with you on every thread.
You didnt say about large or huge difference. But from your posts, an user who never searchs for different RAM benchmarks will get a wrong idea.
All benchmarks ( example: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/memory-performance-16gb-ddr31333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill/8) show ridiculous improvements in performance with higher-clocked or lower-latency ram, in near all tasks except benchmarks designed to let RAM sellers mislead people. Let alone latency benchmarks.

I see you run 32gb at 2666/2800 on your 2 systems.. but sincerely, you can't not know that someone opening a thread to ask this kind advice is a totally different user than you.
"large" "huge" are words. Let,s tell people numbers. Lower latency and higher frequency give about 1-2% of performance boost, and sometimes nothing.
There are DOZENS better ways to spend money on our PCS.

You say "depends on what you do and how", great! Then, you should tell people to do what.. and how, they will benefit from >8gb ram, (I dont even talk of frequency and latency here,lol).
Nobody opening a thread here is the type of user who can need it.



 
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And what do these Benchmarks do? Few to any are really testing DRAM, most are more based on CPU and GPU. Running a benchmark is simply performing a single task, and even then in gaming benchmarks you often see a slight gain. Faster, higher performance DRAM shows through more when doing memory intensive tasks or handling multiple tasks from the CPU and GPU... What's in my rigs is there for a reason, all the rigs in my shop get heavily used and in a multi-tasking environment. The type and amount of DRAM changes often as I use them to let clients actually see how different freqs and timings affect performance in what they will be doing with a rig, in fact I like to let them try both of the Haswell builds with different DRAM setups, with out them knowing which is which and say put 16GB of 1600 in one rig and 16GB of 2133 in another, then let them use them for a hour or so and see which they prefer...9 out of 10 point out the rig running the faster DRAM without even knowing what the different setups are as being the faster and often ask how much higher the CPU OC is on that one, since both are set up the same with the exception of the DRAM, they too are surprised at the difference the DRAM can make....If all you do is single tasks like gaming, or just do one thing at a time, then no faster DRAM will not be apparent to you generally, but if you really use the rig and depending on how you use it, it can show itself as a performance improvement
 
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