Which would you get?

w00dy85

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A friend is building a skylake gaming system and was going to get some team group xtreem 3733mhz DDR 4, I told him to get the corsair vengeance 3200mhz as it's a good price.

Cost is not a problem to him, which do you think he should get?
 
Cost no isssue the Team Group 3866 is a good set of 8gb or the 3733 16gb set you mentioned are good performers.
 
Faster RAM can certainly improve the Intel's IGP graphics performance. However that is usually a very poor justification to pay more money for your RAM. Especially given that there are still no IRIS desktop parts yet.

Maybe there will eventually arrive some more taxing VR games. And faster RAM might eventually be worth it to feed new Pascal / Polaris GPUs. But any 'proper' VR solution should use Foveated rendering. So I would probably kindda remain a bit sceptical about it, even then.
 
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Threepwood said:
In which games, or are we playing realbench?
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Those who can do. Those who cant moan!!!

Skylake benefits from fast RAM and Cache speed. Money is no object why not improve perf. Go 2x 3733mhz I do in my Comet build and performance is great.
 
Bossman said:
Is there more benefit to be had from tighter timings than pure Mhz with Skylake?
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MHz because that decreases both latency and sustained in the same go. Wheras lower timings just decreases latency only.

Anyway HBM2 is already being manufactured now. Which will probably come first to CPUs in the form of AMD zen-based APUs inisde of 18 months. And of course discreete graphics cards also in < 9 months. Where is going to be the most valuable.
 
Thanks for the posts guys, some interesting posts.

The one thing I did think of and I will mention it to my friend, is the height of the ram and the problem he may have with fitting a cooler. Apart from the price, this is my only concern with high speed ram.
 
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