RAM Help

[Quinn Bromley]

I'm building my first gaming/editing rig and i was wanting to know whether i should go for RAM with higher Mhz or RAM with more gbs. It's a choice between 16gb of 1800Mhz ddr3 or 8gb 2400Mhz ddr3. Thanks

[NeatSquidYT]

16GB 1866MhZ, as far as I know you can't get 1800MhZ.

[WoodenMarker]

Ram speed doesn't make much of a difference outside of some memory intensive applications. Quantity is almost always better than higher speed when it comes to ram. 

[Frosty11]

Higher frequency RAM is useful with AMD APUs, but you are building a editing rig so I assume your build doesn't have a APU. You should go with 1866 MHz 16 GB RAM.

[pawan1993]

It's important to make sure you have a good balance between latency/RAM timings and clock speed. Generally, the higher clock speed RAM sticks have worse timings than the lower speed ones. Linus did a test on clock speed vs RAM timings on a performance basis and the sweet spot was the 1866 MHz with a CAS latency of 9. With the 1866 MHz RAM sticks you're getting more RAM too so it's really a no-brainer in this case.