Ram Compatibility

[xdriver14]

I am currently accumulating parts for my new pc. I have a gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 and an i7-4790K sitting on my desk, and am perusing the daily deal email I have been getting from PC PartPicker and have noticed a few great deals on DDR3 2133 with a 9 latency. The price for 8 gigs is about 100$ delivered. This looks good to me (more speed same money) however when i plug this ram into pcpartpicker it gives me an incompatibility warning that the ram voltage of 1.65 is higher than the reccommended for the i7 4790K

 

Is my thinking wrong looking for the fastest ram? Will this ram work without creating other problems? Should I just keep looking for a deal on 1866 ram and forget about the 2133? 

 

Thanks in advance for the advice

 

 

[techguru]

for z97..generally you only want pc 1600

faster will often give you problems...

and for the most part...you won't notice the diff

[Redsun20]

Don't spend money on high speed RAM if you plan to do gaming. Watch dis video:

[dmanschramm]

I am currently accumulating parts for my new pc. I have a gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 and an i7-4790K sitting on my desk, and am perusing the daily deal email I have been getting from PC PartPicker and have noticed a few great deals on DDR3 2133 with a 9 latency. The price for 8 gigs is about 100$ delivered. This looks good to me (more speed same money) however when i plug this ram into pcpartpicker it gives me an incompatibility warning that the ram voltage of 1.65 is higher than the reccommended for the i7 4790K

 

Is my thinking wrong looking for the fastest ram? Will this ram work without creating other problems? Should I just keep looking for a deal on 1866 ram and forget about the 2133? 

 

Thanks in advance for the advice

 

The RAM isn't incompatible, it is just above the recommended voltage for Haswell boards. I have similar RAM that I run at 1.65V (2400 Mhz) and they run fine. You just have to dial in their speeds yourself on the motherboard. The XMP profile was a little finicky for me. 

 

It has not created any problems for me so far and think that it should be fine for your system.

 

Hope this helps

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[GameDragon]

I am currently accumulating parts for my new pc. I have a gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 and an i7-4790K sitting on my desk, and am perusing the daily deal email I have been getting from PC PartPicker and have noticed a few great deals on DDR3 2133 with a 9 latency. The price for 8 gigs is about 100$ delivered. This looks good to me (more speed same money) however when i plug this ram into pcpartpicker it gives me an incompatibility warning that the ram voltage of 1.65 is higher than the reccommended for the i7 4790K

 

Is my thinking wrong looking for the fastest ram? Will this ram work without creating other problems? Should I just keep looking for a deal on 1866 ram and forget about the 2133? 

 

Thanks in advance for the advice

The RAM is still compatible with it although the RAM will run at a lower voltage than what it says on the box. If you need the speed, stick with that RAM but if you want some good, stable RAM I would go for the 1866mhz RAM. Hope this helps!

[GameDragon]

I am currently accumulating parts for my new pc. I have a gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 and an i7-4790K sitting on my desk, and am perusing the daily deal email I have been getting from PC PartPicker and have noticed a few great deals on DDR3 2133 with a 9 latency. The price for 8 gigs is about 100$ delivered. This looks good to me (more speed same money) however when i plug this ram into pcpartpicker it gives me an incompatibility warning that the ram voltage of 1.65 is higher than the reccommended for the i7 4790K

 

Is my thinking wrong looking for the fastest ram? Will this ram work without creating other problems? Should I just keep looking for a deal on 1866 ram and forget about the 2133? 

 

Thanks in advance for the advice

The RAM is still compatible with it although the RAM will run at a lower voltage than what it says on the box. If you need the speed, stick with that RAM but if you want some good, stable RAM I would go for the 1866mhz RAM. Hope this helps!

[DimasRMDO]

You might want to get 1600Mhz, putting more speed don't give you performance benefit if you're gaming, you can't really see it. If you're using AMD's APU then it can help, but not in this case.

[GameDragon]

I am currently accumulating parts for my new pc. I have a gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 and an i7-4790K sitting on my desk, and am perusing the daily deal email I have been getting from PC PartPicker and have noticed a few great deals on DDR3 2133 with a 9 latency. The price for 8 gigs is about 100$ delivered. This looks good to me (more speed same money) however when i plug this ram into pcpartpicker it gives me an incompatibility warning that the ram voltage of 1.65 is higher than the reccommended for the i7 4790K

 

Is my thinking wrong looking for the fastest ram? Will this ram work without creating other problems? Should I just keep looking for a deal on 1866 ram and forget about the 2133? 

 

Thanks in advance for the advice

The RAM is still compatible with it although the RAM will run at a lower voltage than what it says on the box. If you need the speed, stick with that RAM but if you want some good, stable RAM I would go for the 1866mhz RAM. Hope this helps!

[xdriver14]

Thanks everyone, I went to the gigabyte website and downloaded the ram compatibility list and have found a 1866 at cl9 that works for me. Thanks for all your help, and how fast too! I am pretty sure I will have 1 or 2 more before I'm done. Thanks again everyone!