New Memory
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if you're not going to overclock, you can get pretty high frequency ram, because haswell CPUs support a lot higher frequencies now. Older ram will still do fine, but if you wan to get as much performance as possible without overclocking, I'd get some 2133MHz ram or something similar (more is still possible)
What I said should be correct, but I'd wait for someone to confirm my statement
And why Haswell memory is "better" its probably because Haswell CPUs have a new memory controller, that, as I said support a lot higher frequencies. My build will probably still use 1600MHz ram, just because its cheaper and, as I understood it, the more you overclock, the worse high frequency support gets.
tl;dr: New memory controller, your older Vengeance RAM is still good.
What I said should be correct, but I'd wait for someone to confirm my statement
And why Haswell memory is "better" its probably because Haswell CPUs have a new memory controller, that, as I said support a lot higher frequencies. My build will probably still use 1600MHz ram, just because its cheaper and, as I understood it, the more you overclock, the worse high frequency support gets.
tl;dr: New memory controller, your older Vengeance RAM is still good.
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I'm sorry, I didn't understand the last part.
But 1600 is still enough, as I said, I'll be using 1600, its still pretty good and you shouldn't run into any problems with 1600MHz ram.
