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Building a new computer purely for gaming. I have already bought most of the parts:

I5-4690K CPU

GTX 980 GPU

MSI Z97 gaming 7 Mother board

EVGA 750W Power supply

Patriot 480GB SSD

And I also Purchased 16gb (2X8gb sticks) of Patriot Viper DDR3 PC3-15000 1866MHz Ram.
But now I see that Corsair DDR3 16GB 2400MHz Dual Memory is on sale locally for not much more than what I bought mine for. My question is... Money not really being an issue($90-$100), which is the better RAM and why? I am not very clear on how RAM speed works and want something fast. Dose the RAM clock speed have to be compatible with the mother board or cpu? And if neither are good fast ram than can I get a recommendation please? Thank you!
 
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IF it's purely for gaming, you're not going to see much, if any, difference using faster RAM. Even DDR3 1600mhz is within about 5% of DDR3 2133mhz when it's comes to gaming performance. I wouldn't waste the money. Now, if you use high end applications or do a whole lot of multi-tasking as far as having many browser tabs, recording while gaming, streaming while gaming, simultaneous skyping or other intensive processes, you may benefit from faster RAM, but if all you're doing is gaming, it's unlikely you'd notice the difference enough to warrant a change from 1866mhz.
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RAM speed matters very little when it comes to gaming; the difference between 1866Mhz and 2400Mhz (even 1600Mhz DDR3 vs 2400Mhz DDR4 in my testing) is extremely small http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell/10. If that money can help you towards getting a 980Ti all the better.

Your motherboard supports: DDR3 3300*(*OC)/ 3200*/ 3100*/ 3000*/ 2800*/ 2666*/ 2600*/ 2400*/ 2200*/ 2133*/ 2000*/ 1866*/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130768
 
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IF it's purely for gaming, you're not going to see much, if any, difference using faster RAM. Even DDR3 1600mhz is within about 5% of DDR3 2133mhz when it's comes to gaming performance. I wouldn't waste the money. Now, if you use high end applications or do a whole lot of multi-tasking as far as having many browser tabs, recording while gaming, streaming while gaming, simultaneous skyping or other intensive processes, you may benefit from faster RAM, but if all you're doing is gaming, it's unlikely you'd notice the difference enough to warrant a change from 1866mhz.
 
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