Memory, 1333 or 1600?

[Beitzel15]

Going to be running:

i7 860
ATI 5850
Asus P7P55D Pro motherboard
Windows vista 64bit and then Windows 7 when it comes out.....

Comp will be used for some work, moderate gaming... Should I go with 1600 or 1333

 

[jimishtar]

1600 of course, u are a big spender anyway.

 

[xaira]

doesnt matter, but id go with 1600, just because its divisible by two.

 

[Beitzel15]

Ok.

Im going to be running 8 gigs of this. 4 sticks of 2gb.

Thanks.

 

[werxen]

lol? why do you even have a xig if you are not overclocking your E8500?

 

[Beitzel15]

lol? why do you even have a xig if you are not overclocking your E8500?

Because I'm not 100% sure how to without damaging anything.. and I didn't want my cpu running at 60c+ while gaming like my brothers E8500 with the stock intel fan....

LOLL!L!O!L!!OLOOOLOL?!?!?

 

[ubernoobie]

your mobo is an excellent overclocker and if u oc it, it wouldn't damage it unless u go crazy, 5ghz with 9v

 

[Beitzel15]

your mobo is an excellent overclocker and if u oc it, it wouldn't damage it unless u go crazy, 5ghz with 9v

What would I gain from OC'ing my E8500.....It runs everything I play maxed out right now.... and how safe am I using the EZtune software that came with my mobo to OC.

 

[xaira]

if you wont overclock it, undervolt it, turn that 65w tdp to a 45w

 

[blackhawk1928]

I don't think you will notice a big difference, unless you are using some RAM intensive application AKA PHOTOHOP and some others then you can go with 1333mhz. Although, i'd do some research on toms articles for some benchmarks to see the real difference.

 

[hunter315]

Get CL7 ram as that affects the performance as much as the speed, 1600MHz CL7 ram will be better than 1333MHz CL7 ram, but 1333MHz CL7 ram would perform very similarly to 1600MHz CL9 ram.

 

[werxen]

Because I'm not 100% sure how to without damaging anything.. and I didn't want my cpu running at 60c+ while gaming like my brothers E8500 with the stock intel fan....

LOLL!L!O!L!!OLOOOLOL?!?!?

wow then why did you get a xig LOLOLOOOLLOOOOOLL. dumbass.

 

[Beitzel15]

wow then why did you get a xig LOLOLOOOLLOOOOOLL. dumbass.

Really..........it bothers you this bad that I bought a Xig, to lower cpu temps @ a stock speed..... Maybe the Xig was the best value at the time... wtf does it matter to you? grow up and stay off my post's.