RAM For 4790k

[patrickjp93]

Board: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

Chip: 4790k

 

Tasks: igpu handles everything, working with big spreadsheets (~6-10 GB each) and using optimization/nth-order statistic calculation solvers on said sheets, rendering family videos from the past 5 years, VOIP business meetings, playing non-intensive games such as Diablo 2 and Guild Wars 2.

 

G.Skill Trident X 1600MHz with CAS 7 or G.Skill Trident X 2133 with CAS 9? Some tell me the igpu will benefit from the higher RAM speed, but I'm not an expert on anything APU-related.

[piggykid1]

Pick whatever looks cooler in your opinion because the speed won't matter much and the CAS Latencys are different so it ends up not making the speeds that different

[lani100]

jus get 1600mhz 8gb at least if possible 16.

[patrickjp93]

Pick whatever looks cooler in your opinion because the speed won't matter much and the CAS Latencys are different so it ends up not making the speeds that different

Same red heatspreader. They're the same in that regard.

 

I've heard people say a difference of 2 CAS makes up for 500 MHz difference, but I've also heard APUs do significantly better with higher MHz RAM. I also know Intel's chips are not exactly yet APUs, and Skylake will be where unified memory finally appears, but I'm still cautious. This is basically a 10-year build to replace the previous 11-year build based on the Q6600 chip, so not having to purchase a discrete graphics card by making sure the iGPU is perfectly fed is a long-term priority for me.

[dev893]

you could always just over clock the ram to 1866mhz I'm not sure there is much of a difference and APU is the term for AMD processors not intel

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Get 1866MHz Hyper X Fury RAM.

[patrickjp93]

you could always just over clock the ram to 1866mhz I'm not sure there is much of a difference and APU is the term for AMD processors not intel

APU is a term which describes any central processing chip which contains onboard accelerators for simple tasks. Accelerated Processing Unit was a term long before AMD started using it.

[dev893]

APU is a term which describes any central processing chip which contains onboard accelerators for simple tasks. Accelerated Processing Unit was a term long before AMD started using it.

never heard any one refer to an intel CPU as an APU the reason AMD is reffered to as an APU is because they put decent GPU's on their CPU's (even if the CPU's aren't the best)

[patrickjp93]

never heard any one refer to an intel CPU as an APU the reason AMD is reffered to as an APU is because they put decent GPU's on their CPU's (even if the CPU's aren't the best)

Intel's GPUs are by no means bad. They just haven't been made for gaming up until Iris Pro because Intel didn't see any reason to pick a fight with Nvidia as long as it pressured AMD. Now that the writing is on the wall that APUs are the future on scientific computing and gaming fronts (hence Knight's Landing turning the Xeon Phi into a socketed chip), and with a number of software companies getting behind HSA, they're lazily implementing AMD's hard work.Officially its chips started down the road to being APUs with Haswell and the Last Level Cache. With Skylake we get unified memory. I assume in Mountain Lake (rumored name of successor) we'll see a heterogeneous scheduling system implemented, completing the evolution, about when serious software companies begin building for heterogeneous architecture.

 

Intel may not be a pro-competition company, but they're shrewd.