RAM

[Guest]

Hi, I'm a new builder and I need to know how to find out what kind of RAM you need. What does it depend on, the motherboard? 

[ThatSweetGamer]

Hi, I'm a new builder and I need to know how to find out what kind of RAM you need. What does it depend on, the motherboard? 

Yep, all depends on what motherboard you get.

[Guest]

thanks

[typographie]

Hi, I'm a new builder and I need to know how to find out what kind of RAM you need. What does it depend on, the motherboard? 

 

Technically it depends on the memory controller, which I believe is located on the processor itself in today's systems. But basically, yeah, you could look at it as depending on the motherboard/CPU/chipset system since that cannot vary.

 

Pretty much everything for the last ~5 years has been using ordinary DDR3 SDRAM, though, with the only exception being Intel's high-end X99 platform which has introduced DDR4.

[bodoy]

Mostly the motherboard yes. 1600MHz is the sweet spot for pretty much any system today and as for CAS latencies (or CL), they wouldn't matter much at all in terms of just gaming or browsing. CL 10 and CL 9 pretty much have millisecond different speeds; not that noticeable.

 

Like several people have said, RAM is RAM. 8GB for overall normal PC usage and 16GB or more if you do video editing (again, sweet spots)