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Conflicted - 1600mhz vs 2133mhz

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1600 is fine. Your won't notice any difference from 2133 but in most case its more expensive.

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So I plan to stick with a Asus B85-PRO GAMER motherboard for my upcoming new gaming rig, but it only has "Dual DDR3 1600 support". I plan to do simple web browsing and play non-demanding games like Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 in a 1920x1080 monitor, so should I find a new motherboard to get 2133mhz support, or just settle with 1600mhz? Google did not help me, because there's way too many mixed opinions.

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1600 is fine. Your won't notice any difference from 2133 but in most case its more expensive.

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For gaming and general tasks, 1600 is fast enough for your needs.

i'm rocking 1333 and i'm fine, but i'm just lazy and haven't hit mem ok yet :| 

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Rams speeds mean contribute little to none in terms of performance unless you are running an APU, as graphics hogs ram speed. Linus did a video on this a while back.

 

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Assuming the latencies remain static, the faster RAM will technically be on paper better. In real world applications how much it benefits you will vary. Games and web browsing won't take much advantage of it, but CPU and RAM intensive tasks (think of rendering or extreme multitasking) there will be benefits. 

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