What RAM should I buy for a DDR4 motherboard and an Intel i7-5820k?

Bricks1226 · Jul 6, 2016

I am planning on building a custom gaming PC. I am going to use an i7-5820k and my motherboard is going to be MSI X99 Extreme Gaming DDR4 motherboard. I was wondering what's the best RAM for me if I plan on doing video editing and mostly gaming? Thanks.

tical2399 · Jul 6, 2016

I got 64 gigs of this ram and it works great.

https://www.amazon.com/Ballistix-Sport-Single-PC4-19200-288-Pin/dp/B00UFBZOVE/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1467808935&sr=8-6&keywords=crucial+ballistix+sport+8gb

gareththegiant · Jul 6, 2016

currently the best DDR4 is the corsair dominator rog series.
http://www.corsair.com/en/dominator-platinum-rog-edition-16gb-4-x-4gb-ddr4-dram-3200mhz-c16-memory-kit-cmd16gx4m4b3200c16-rog

tical2399 · Jul 6, 2016

gareththegiant :

And they'll get you all of 2 fps increas if that. He's mostly gaming he said. Faster ram doesnt provide much performance increase.

Tradesman1 · Jul 6, 2016

Depends on the game, many are using faster DRAM more and more:

http://wccftech.com/fallout-4-performance-heavily-influenced-by-ram-speed-according-to-report/

The Dominators are well overpriced though and still mostly running on loose timings, I look at 4x8GB of RipJaws V or TriZs in 3000/3200/14 , 64 GB is way overkill for most

tical2399 · Jul 6, 2016

Tradesman1 :

That's one game. Show me benches for these "many" games that benefit from faster ram. I'll wait.

Tradesman1 · Jul 6, 2016

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments3w7klydiscussion_ram_speed_doesnt_matter_for_gaming_or/

tical2399 · Jul 6, 2016

Says page not found

Tradesman1 · Jul 6, 2016

It must have truncated the link - this seems to work

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3w7kly/discussion_ram_speed_doesnt_matter_for_gaming_or/

tical2399 · Jul 6, 2016

Those are tested on an apu. That's the GPU portion benefitting from faster ram. I'm still waiting on Somebody to show proof that faster ram has any performance gain outside the margin of error with a standard cpu and dedicated GPU besides that one game fallout 4

Tradesman1 · Jul 6, 2016

Here's some that may be better, couldn't find it earlier some testing done and results shown at minimum FPS (which keeps gaming smoother) with a 290X

http://www.overclock.net/t/1487162/an-independent-study-does-the-speed-of-ram-directly-affect-fps-during-high-cpu-overhead-scenarios

Got some other links, have to dig them up

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