DDR3 1600, or DDR3 1866?

[Hdee]

Leave your reasoning down below

[MatthewEnderle]

What about it?

[ESPclipse]

Depends on the needs, but 1600MT/s is good enough for most applications and much cheaper, too

[FloRolf]

the cheaper ones unless you are using an APU then the 1866 or even faster.

[Samsterstorm]

1866 because it almost no different in price between them and faster is always better! 

 

[Syte]

You take the Frequency of the RAM multiplied by the CAS Latency divided by 1000 and you more or less have a "rating" for the RAM. Keep in mind this is oversimplified.

 

Generally for gaming builds who want to spend the couple dollars extra for the "best" I recommend 1866 CL9 overclockable if you can find it, if not 1866 CL10 and if you can't find that 1600 CL8 or even CL9 if you just want mainstream.

[Sauron]

Depends what you're doing. In most cases you are perfectly fine with 1600.

[The_Doctor7019]

From what I have found unless you want to tweek the ram speeds in the bios up to 1866 the baseline is 1600 but it realy depends what you want to pay for, if the kits are the same price I would get the faster kit if it goes well with the colour of the rest of your system 

[Vozella]

Depends on the latency.

[WedgeBob]

I've even seen DDR3-2400 for around the price range of some of the DDR3-1600 and DDR3-1866 modules (albeit who knows the quality of those at those prices), but that shouldn't be ruled out, either.

[Karman62]

G-Skill Ripjaws X Series (2x8 Kit) DDR3-2133   Remember this is clocked at 2133 and is cheap as hell, you should consider it!