Can I use intel designed RAM in AMD pc?

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Need some new RAM since 4gb just doesn't cut it nowadays. I have a fx 6300 with an asus M5A97. I have been looking at G.SKILL ram, seems much cheaper than corsair. All of their memory says it is designed for intel, and runs at 1.65v.

Can I use this RAM in my PC?

Thanks!
 
joeyjojo said:
Do you know why? Memory speed/latency only makes a difference in some cases, and at most by a very small margin.
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I play a lot of Battlefield 4, and the high clock speed apparently helps a lot in that game. Corsair found this first (but of course no one really trusted them since they manafacture RAM), but others have benchmarked it and high clock speeds really do seem to help.

Being a gamer, I'm assuming that most other new games are going to be similar, particularly online multiplayer games, since so much is happening at once.
 
It depends on the settings you're running. The biggest difference seems to be at medium in BF4 where there's a 5% difference in min FPS between 1600 MHz and 2400 MHz. However, with both you're getting over 114 FPS minimum, so it's probably not worth the extra money as your eyes won't be able to tell the difference.

At high/extreme graphics settings where you really want the extra FPS the difference is small - less than 2%, so I wouldn't spend more than 2% extra on 2400 MHz over 1600 MHz (i.e. £61 is worth it for 2400 MHz, otherwise £59.99 for 1600 MHz is still best value).

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/11/27/battlefield-4-performance-analysis/9
 
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High speed ram has benefits for AMD systems only so far that it gives more scope for a high bus clock frequency. I run 19 x 250 and 250 bus gives me 2000Mhz at 8x memory clock. I have a mix of Patriot 2133 and Corsair vengeance 2000 at CAS11
 
Indeed, it's most prominently useful in APU systems, but there's no reason not to go for faster RAM at the same price.
 
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