Ram for Z77

[XxRoyalxTigerxX]

Does anyone know the best ram to get with a z77 board? fastest and best performing are what i'm looking for and to get about 16gbs of it

[Samdb]

Any 1600MHz, CAS 9 is fine, if you're gaming, go with 8GB and if you're editing video, go with 16GB.

[Bluejay0]

Minimum is 1600MHZ in my opinion.

G.Skill

Corsair

Adata

Kingston

 All are great companies but if you want good ram, the Vengeance Pro of Corsair are made for the Z77 Ivy-Bridge and Z87 Haswell chips

[Wats]

Capacity is much more important than speeds these days. Something cheap or great looking is what you're after^^^^

 

Unless you want some 2666 for your benching rig. But you wouldn't ask questions like this if you had a benching rig =P

[Bluejay0]

Capacity is much more important than speeds these days. Something cheap or great looking is what you're after^^^^

 

Unless you want some 2666 for your benching rig. But you wouldn't ask questions like this if you had a benching rig =P

 

I believe it alternates (Capacity v Speed)

 

Remember how APUs benefitted from faster RAM

[Wats]

I believe it alternates (Capacity v Speed)

 

Remember how APUs benefitted from faster RAM

Yeah that's true. But If you go for blistering quick ram on your APU rig you might as well of spent the little bit extra on a GPU.

[Bluejay0]

Yeah that's true. But If you go for blistering quick ram on your APU rig you might as well of spent the little bit extra on a GPU.

 

Very true. I do like high speed RAM for any build (even though i have 1600 which is now becoming a standard in most rigs) Capacity and channel settings can play a role in applications such as PS Sony V and games.

[Wats]

Very true. I do like high speed RAM for any build (even though i have 1600 which is now becoming a standard in most rigs) Capacity and channel settings can play a role in applications such as PS Sony V and games.

Give it an overclock! most of those 1600 kits can do 1800. I have the cheapest kit of 1600CL9 1.5V running at 1890 9-10-9-28 1T 1.6V everyday. I've gotten it to 2000 9-11-9-28 1T with 1.68V before. But that's a bit out of operating range for daily use.

[Bluejay0]

Give it an overclock! most of those 1600 kits can do 1800. I have the cheapest kit of 1600CL9 1.5V running at 1890 9-10-9-28 1T 1.6V everyday. I've gotten it to 2000 9-11-9-28 1T with 1.68V before. But that's a bit out of operating range for daily use.

 

NOOOOO!!! I never overclock on RAM cause it's just more out of my range. For now i have a single channel (I know) and when I can get a second module that will possibly applied.

[Wats]

NOOOOO!!! I never overclock on RAM cause it's just more out of my range. For now i have a single channel (I know) and when I can get a second module that will possibly applied.

Ohhhh, I see your setup. Hmmm. Bump the BCLK to 102, done. I doubt you'll have to change any other values.

 

Not too sure what you mean by out of my range o.O