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10 minutes ago, Doggo6000 said:

I am looking to buy a 16gb or 8gb kit of ram but I am not sure what speed I need. I am putting a gtx 1080 and a i5-6600k. I am looking to play at 4k. What is the recomended ram speed that I should get.

if i know it correctly any DDR4 2133 and 1866 mhz ram is normal ram for any cpu and motherboard. Anything higher is OC and has to be changed in the bios of the motherboard to utilise it. Go with whatever you want, but remember, the motherboard has to actually support the OC ram, so yeah. The mobo will say what rated OC ram it can take, so any between and lower that works works. Just remember, the faster the ram the higher the price. 

 

With that setup higher is better, I believe

 

Hopefully someone with more experience can give you a more comprehensive answer

 

OR in the

words of Linus, "It depends"

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10 minutes ago, Doggo6000 said:

I am looking to buy a 16gb or 8gb kit of ram but I am not sure what speed I need. I am putting a gtx 1080 and a i5-6600k. I am looking to play at 4k. What is the recomended ram speed that I should get.

if i know it correctly any DDR4 2133 and 1866 mhz ram is normal ram for any cpu and motherboard. Anything higher is OC and has to be changed in the bios of the motherboard to utilise it. Go with whatever you want, but remember, the motherboard has to actually support the OC ram, so yeah. The mobo will say what rated OC ram it can take, so any between and lower that works works. Just remember, the faster the ram the higher the price. 

 

With that setup higher is better, I believe

 

Hopefully someone with more experience can give you a more comprehensive answer

 

OR in the

words of Linus, "It depends"

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Speed doesn't mean shit. Just get whatever you can afford. The difference in gaming is literally within the margin of error in testing. 

CPU: INTEL Core i7 4790k @ 4.7Ghz - Cooling: NZXT Kraken X61 - Mobo: Gigabyte Z97X SLI - RAM: 16GB G.Skill Ares 2400mhz - GPU: AMD Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury 4G - Case: Phanteks P350X - PSU: EVGA 750GQ - Storage: WD Black 1TB - Fans: 2x Noctua NF-P14s (Push) / 2x Corsair AF140 (Pull) / 3x Corsair AF120 (Exhaust) - Keyboard: Corsair K70 Cherry MX Red - Mouse: Razer Deathadder Chroma

Bit of an AMD fan I suppose. I don't bias my replies to anything however, I just prefer AMD and their products. Buy whatever the H*CK you want. 

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