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Still planning my new build . . .

 

Core i7 5960X

ASUS X99 Deluxe

2x GTX 980 (SLI)

 

My question is how much of a difference is there in RAM from different suppliers?  Corsair has some cool heat sinks for their ram sticks and so does G.Skill.  Are they worth the price premium?

 

Second question is will I really see much of a difference if I pay the premium for say 2800 MHz vs 2400 MHz?

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You won't notice much difference in RAM while gaming. There are some applications that uses RAM speeds to perform their work like content creation I guess!

Choosing a higher RAM won't increase the performance in the Gaming! Get a cheaper one. 1600 MHz is okay for gaming!

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Still planning my new build . . .

 

Core i7 5960X

ASUS X99 Deluxe

2x GTX 980 (SLI)

 

My question is how much of a difference is there in RAM from different suppliers?  Corsair has some cool heat sinks for their ram sticks and so does G.Skill.  Are they worth the price premium?

 

Second question is will I really see much of a difference if I pay the premium for say 2800 MHz vs 2400 MHz?

as you said they are heat sinks so they do help, not all for looks. I dont know many any gamers who go for stock ram and if you doing editing and that then you def need ram with heat sinks.

Also means you can OC your ram the better the heat sink.

For gaming i wouldnt go above 1866mhz ram as you wont see any difference and wouldnt go above 16g

For a workstation i would go as high as i could afford and not below 2400mhz and also get  32g of ram

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This is for a dual use system.  My day job does some heavy number crunching (optical design/ray trace + Monte Carlo modeling).

 

I'm using a laptop with an i7 2640M right now and I can easily max out both cores (and all four threads) at 100% for hours on end.

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Currently planning on 64GB and either 2400MHz or 2800MHz, so I'm going to spend at least $1,000 just for RAM.

 

I'm looking at G.Skill Ripjaws 4 or Corsair Vengeance LPX.  I love the look of the Corsair Dominator, but that's about double the cost.

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