I'm confused with DDR3 ram speeds, please help me :)

mahanddeem

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Just purchased 4790K and Asus Z97-A for a gaming rig, for playing mostly BF4 MP on big servers.
Now I need the fastest ram I can get with "normal" not OC parameters.

I see 1600MHz can limit performance and the idea of better ram speeds can give better fps in some situations. So that speed is out of my consideration.

I hate OC'ing with passion (I hate clunky unstable system) , now should I go with 2800, 2666 or 2400 or 2133 Mhz ? supposedly I can find these speeds with good latency and timings(I understand those effects). The most important thing is that I don't want a ram speed that messes up BLCK and what not sensitive parameters to achieve high frequencies. What is the fastest "peaceful(lol)" DDR3 I can get for my system ?

Thanks
 
Solution
truth is... you won't get any noticeable performance change in gaming with higher frequencies in RAM. You can only see differences in synthetic benchmarks and maybe servers... but not in gaming. You may benefit more from increasing from 8 to 16 GB if anything. I would stay at 1600-1833 and maybe spend more on SSD :D

You can google about this topic, there are sites that have done RAM OC benchmarks for gaming.

atmos929

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truth is... you won't get any noticeable performance change in gaming with higher frequencies in RAM. You can only see differences in synthetic benchmarks and maybe servers... but not in gaming. You may benefit more from increasing from 8 to 16 GB if anything. I would stay at 1600-1833 and maybe spend more on SSD :D

You can google about this topic, there are sites that have done RAM OC benchmarks for gaming.
 
Solution
Pick these up, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226421 Ether load the profile from the ram or set them manually in the bios. There will not be a need to change the BLCK of the cpu to set the ram speed.

Ive been running Mushkin ram on Asus board for the past 8 years without a single bad stick (8 different kits) all of them work like a dream and can overclock past what is stated for the kit.
 

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