What memory for 2500k overclock

battlefieldfan said:
Watercooling ? its aircooled ram
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He's thinking more about possible clearance problems between RAM and cooler if your using/or intend to use after market air cooling :)

I have not checked the MB manual..... but I think ASUS normally recommend using the blue coloured slots on the MB you linked to. In which case using a huge air cooler like a D14 or Silver Arrow could be problematic with the high profile heatsinks on the RAM you asked about :)
 
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battlefieldfan said:
Watercooling ? its aircooled ram
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You can watercool the vengance, IIRC, but just get some cheap stuff from corsair or kingston or crucial. Get 1600mhz ram ddr3 I guess and get ~4gb or more if you have a need for it.

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Essexraptor said:
He's thinking more about possible clearance problems between RAM and cooler if your using air cooling :)
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Yes, that too, although you can LQ the vengeance, although I see very little need for it. If I was still on my old Air CPU cooler I would have to keep to small-ish ram, although now I've got a liquid cooling system the Rad is well clear of the ram and everything else :)
 
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Personally I have future proofed with some 2133 ram. The main reason being that when I upgrade in the future I will use the motherboard, ram and cpu without a graphics card in another system and since the only ram that will be availible for CPU graphics will be the system ram the faster the better :)
 
Everything ive read syas that 1600Mhz is about the best for sandybridge CPU's so anything along those lines
 
wkingsnorth said:
I agree, £50 for 16gb if you are so inclined
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I was about to make a post asking about the OcUK value ram but found this. I've noticed it's dropped off of today only but it's still pretty cheap.

I'm just putting together a new system and was wondering if its decent or not.

I'm putting together a mATX system with the Asus Gene-z and a 2500k. I'm not sure if the memory is really going to need headspreaders or not
 
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