Which RAM would you get?

Rockstar09 · 7 Sep 2016 at 20:31

Hi Guys,

Upgrading my X58 system for a skylake one, so far have decided on the following:

EVGA GTX 1080
Maximus Hero Alpha VIII
6700k

My question is RAM, I have seen a pile of benchmarks in games which show benefits of higher frequency RAM on Skylake (as opposed to tighter timings).

Vengeance® LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3600MHz C18 Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3600C18)

Is there any reason to go for 3200MHZ at C15 instead?

I am aware the differences are very marginal but I'm not fussed about spending a bit more money I just want the best 2x8GB kit I can get.

I'm going to throw a spanner into the works and tell you now that it has to be as low profile as it can possibly be, I have very little room under my CPU cooler.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Rockstar09 · 7 Sep 2016 at 23:13

Just found GSkill Ripjaw 5

Looks like it might be low enough to fit and has pretty good looking timing.

F4-3600C16D-16GVK

3600MHz @ 16-16-16-36-2N

Anything else I should be looking at?

Rroff · 7 Sep 2016 at 23:24

I've always gone for a balance of MHz and latency myself - specific applications aside the main benefits of ultra high MHz RAM tend to most significant when you are either using (and doing stuff) with a CPU that has a lot of cores or multi GPUs.

Doogles · 8 Sep 2016 at 17:18

When I was looking at skylake I found the best price was around 3200mhz.

whiterabbit · 14 Sep 2016 at 20:00

I find the speed of RAM doesn't make a big difference when gaming. Just get the best you can afford.

stulid · 14 Sep 2016 at 20:40

3000Mhz or better.

RSR · 15 Sep 2016 at 11:37

If you can find it, I can highly recomend this stuff..

G.Skill Trident Z - 3200

Noxia · 21 Sep 2016 at 10:32

May just be the pictures but it doesn't look very low profile compared to say the Corsair LPX stuff.