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Blue is one of the most common ram colors after black and red. 

For most users, the difference in clock speeds and cas latency will be unnoticeable. Ram is ram. Get whichever kit from a reputable brand is cheapest and looks good to you. 

The motherboard is fine. 

 

Next month is a while from now. I'd suggest planning later. ~2-3 days at most before you buy. Parts and prices change frequently so any parts list you come up with now will likely be obsolete by the time you're ready to buy.

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I'm drafting a black/blue build that I'm planning to build within the next month. I've chosen the NZXT H440 case since it's a great general case. I've also gone for the MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 mobo since I'm running Intel's new devil canyon i7 CPU.

 

Can anyone help me choose which memory to get? Blue isn't too common a colour for RAM and most just have bare tints. I'm looking for 8gb modules, not really too fussed about what speed or CAD as I believe that they don't make much of a difference (am i right???)

 

P.S. Wouldn't mind anyone also giving their opinion on the mobo too since it doesn't seem to be popular compared to the Gaming 5/7 mobo's that MSI have released.

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Blue is one of the most common ram colors after black and red. 

For most users, the difference in clock speeds and cas latency will be unnoticeable. Ram is ram. Get whichever kit from a reputable brand is cheapest and looks good to you. 

The motherboard is fine. 

 

Next month is a while from now. I'd suggest planning later. ~2-3 days at most before you buy. Parts and prices change frequently so any parts list you come up with now will likely be obsolete by the time you're ready to buy.

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well i just got corsair vengeance 2x4gb blue. It is awesome and looks even better in person so i would definitely recommend it to you.

I run my own indie game company called Color Dragon Studios where we are currently making a 2d platformer game called Small Earth.

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Patriot viper have both blue and black and they're sexy af

CPU AMD FX 8350 @5GHz. Motherboard Asus Crosshair V Formula Z. RAM 8GB G.Skill Sniper. GPU Reference Sapphire Radeon R9 290X. Case Fractal Design Define XL R2. Storage Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD and 120GB Kingston HyperX 3K. PSU XFX 850BEFX Pro 850W 80+ Gold. Cooler XSPC RayStorm

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Blue is one of the most common ram colors after black and red. 

For most users, the difference in clock speeds and cas latency will be unnoticeable. Ram is ram. Get whichever kit from a reputable brand is cheapest and looks good to you. 

The motherboard is fine. 

 

Next month is a while from now. I'd suggest planning later. ~2-3 days at most before you buy. Parts and prices change frequently so any parts list you come up with now will likely be obsolete by the time you're ready to buy.

Thanks, really informative! I am just planning to get a rough idea on the pricing of the rig, hopefully it doesn't all change too drastically, haha. I'll definitely look over it again a day or two before I actually go through with buying though. 

 

 

Patriot viper have both blue and black and they're sexy af

 

Ikrrrr, they look hella smexyy! They'll hold the position fine on my pcpartpicker build :P

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