Haswell And Richland Memory Scaling: Picking A 16 GB DDR3 Kit

Getting The Most Out Of Richland: Value With A10-6800K

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Mushkin, Adata, and Patriot sent the most expensive kits, and all three performed admirably. The problem for Adata and Patriot is that our platform’s integrated GPU became unstable at DDR3-2400. That makes Mushkin’s low-latency DDR3-2133 the preferred solution with AMD’s Richland-based APU.

Performance-based preferences aren’t usually economical, however. A combination of good performance and moderate price puts G.Skills RipjawsX DDR3-1866 CAS 10 on the budget-builder’s short list.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.