RAM for Asus Sabertooth P67

wandatowell

I bought one of these boards last year and I want to upgrade the ram as at the time funds were (and probably still are limited) so I couldn't splash out on performance ram

Just wondering what ram would be most suitable.

I use the rig for nothing but gaming.

glynf

wandatowell wrote: »

I bought one of these boards last year and I want to upgrade the ram as at the time funds were (and probably still are limited) so I couldn't splash out on performance ram

Just wondering what ram would be most suitable.

I use the rig for nothing but gaming.

What's your budget like? €38 would get you a decent 8gb geil kit @ 1600MHz:

http://www.memoryc.com/computermemory/ddr3/8gbgeilpc3128001600mhzvaluepluscl9.html

wandatowell

glynf wrote: »

What's your budget like? €38 would get you a decent 8gb geil kit @ 1600MHz:

http://www.memoryc.com/computermemory/ddr3/8gbgeilpc3128001600mhzvaluepluscl9.html

My budget is in the upper end of the market mate,

(Damn its very surprising what you can pick up for 38 quid nowadays)

Eboggles

That's all you need, performance ram does nothing in the way of performance, it only includes ridiculous heat spreaders which make it difficult to attach an after-market CPU cooler which you probably have.

glynf

Yep, anything over €60 & 1600mhz the performance increase is negligible for most apps. Best go for a decent brand like g skill with decent timings.

Edit: above € based on 8gb.

Serephucus

I'd say even above €50 inc. delivery, to be honest.

Tom's Hardware did a review a while back that showed going from 1066MHz CL9 to 2133MHz CL9 gave you less than a 1% performance bump in basically everything except synthetic memory benchmarks. I think there were a couple of applications that managed a 3% or so bump or something, but that's about it.

Genghiz Cohen

What's your RAM now?
It could be fine.