What to do about ram ?

[paulstung]

My Grandad is finally home, so in a few days I can set about building my rig, but I've got a ram problem. I ordered 16gb 4 x 4gb sticks of the 2400 Avexir core yellow but I messed up with the strobe I ordered the blue not yellow. My problem is Avexir only do the yellow strobe in 1600, and I have already got 4 x 4 gb sticks of that. So my question is should I stick with what I have got, or take advantage of Haswell being able to handle higher speeds and just get something other than Avexir ? I have RMA'd the sticks so I'm just waiting for the money to arrive on my card, so opinions please. Stick with 16gb 4 x 4 gb sticks, or have a look for some higher speed. Thanks guys.

I should mention it is going into the MSI XPower, with an i5 4670k with a full loop.

 

[WYP]

you will get better performance out of the higher speeds but if this is a purely gaming pc there is no need for those extreme speeds.
i'd stick to 1600 or 1866 if you are only gaming. if you do much editing or modeling work you may get more out of higher frequency ram but i don't think its worth the extra cost.

if your willing to pay for the better ram why not, there's no kill quite like overkill! lol

 

[yassarikhan786]

For gaming, the higher speeds won't translate into a higher fps gain (there might be a small improvement). However, if the price is reasonable i.e. not extortionately higher than the 1600Mhz sticks, no harm in going for the faster memory.

 

[paulstung]

Cheers guys, I think I'm going to stick with the sticks I've got. For some reason I can only find the Avexir core with the yellow strobe, in 1600, they do the core with a yellow stripe in all speeds but they all have blue strobes. I might wait for the new Avexir MPower to be released it is sexy as hell. I'm not sure if it going to be released soon, I've been trying to do a custom order of their website but all the options are kind of faded out, and it won't let me do any changes to them, so that might be a clue maybe ?

 

[Snortan]

You could always overclock it . According to this review they did 1866 with 1.55v and cas 10, and 2133 with 1.7v, so you could probably get away with 2000 and 1.65

 

[paulstung]

That's one thing I have never really looked into to be honest mate, i'll go away and do some reading I think. Cheers for that