After watching Tek Syndicate's video demonstrating how drastically fast ram increases fps on an AMD Richland APU system, I have hatched an evil plan.
During the Spring semester I will acquire an AMD Kaveri APU (upon release) and put it on an ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ motherboard. But in order to exploit its full potential I need the fastest RAM I can afford, or that the Kaveri will support.
Since I don't know what RAM the Kaveri will support, let's go with what I can afford. That would be about $200 max for the RAM. Also, I don't want anything that requires safety goggles or HAZMAT gloves.
Basically, I need a fast-as-hell 8GB Ram kit. Any suggestions?
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/mushkin-memory-997127y
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-memory-khx26c11t2k28x
You can even get a 16 GB Package
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f32666c12d16gtxd
If you are getting a big Air Cooler, you should watch out, that those RAM-Coolers aren't getting in the way.
Unless they have made revolutionary changes in the Memory controller that AMD uses in their APUs I would be doubtful if you could get any more than 8GB of DDR3 2400 MHz Dual channel RAM to work. I would be more interested to see when Quad channel DDR4 is commercially available for the AMD APU line. As even just DDR4 2133 MHz in a quad channel configuration is going to be miles faster than Dual channel DDR3 2400 MHz. As of right now, my interest in APUs is stifled by the available supporting hardware and the laziness of the hardware manufacturing community to get DDR4 quad channel into the consumer market faster.