What's the best DDR3 ram?

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Price to performance 2133 is about the best bet, if srictly gaming might drop to 1866 or if more doing multi-tasking, video, imaging, VMs, etc things that are more DRAM intensive might consider higher 2400 has some good prices right now. With Haswell, best sticks I've found are the GSkill Tridents, great high performance sticks with plenty of OC headroom (have them on both my Haswell rigs and use them in about 75% of my client builds on Haswell ;)
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Price to performance 2133 is about the best bet, if srictly gaming might drop to 1866 or if more doing multi-tasking, video, imaging, VMs, etc things that are more DRAM intensive might consider higher 2400 has some good prices right now. With Haswell, best sticks I've found are the GSkill Tridents, great high performance sticks with plenty of OC headroom (have them on both my Haswell rigs and use them in about 75% of my client builds on Haswell ;)
 
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Damn tridents look sick! My man! I'm sold! I didn't even know about them. If I get 2400 is that the absolute best for both gaming and video editing?

 
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You'll be very happy with them, as the cooler was brought up might note that the upper fin of the Tri's is removable also (and little to No affect on cooling (DRAM temps might go up 1-2 degrees at most) (I've pulled the fin off mine in the first slot on my Z97 becuase of the CM GTS V8 cooler, primarily as I change out the DRAM very often and while it fits with the fin, it's very tight ;) )

If going 2x4GB 8GB NewEgg has them at about $75 as of a couple days ago in the 2400/10
 
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I bought 2x8 (16gb) of Tridentx 2400 on ebay for 150! I'm hyped! Haha! I'm not sure when/if I'll even get a cooler for this build.

I'm looking for a PC case that's black with red lights do you know of any good ones that look really nice? I've seen a bunch of black and red one's but nothing that sold me. The case is the hardest thing to pick for me :(

 
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Well technically only have 120 left in budget cuz 100 got locked up buying the wrong motherboard (I bought a z87 at first instead if z97 so I bought both and asked the guy to cancel the z87 hoping he does) but as of right now I have 120 left and didnt buy a PSU yet either so hoping to spend as little as possible on a case. I'm guessing mid tower is good for me is there any reason to go with full tower?

I'm looking for something like this http://www.maximumpc.com/files/bitfenix_shadwo_0.jpg but without door panel I'd prefer some front ports and possible front red leds/fans idk it's hard to find exactly what I want
 
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