Alright wanna be doing some medium level gaming using the radeon integrated graphics on my a8 5600k apu need some suggestions on the best possible ram I can pair with it.
Anything with 1866 mhz is good. Get Kingston HyperX or Corsair Vengeance ect.
what mobo? asrock somehow has higher ram speed capability...
Get at least a dual channel kit(two DIMMs) of at least 1866MHz. You might also want at least 8GBs as the iGPU will use something like 512MBs-1GB. Kingston, Corsair, Gskil, Mushkin, and Crucial are all decent brands. You should be able to find what you're looking for in this list.
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#z=16384,8192&n=2,4&h=1&s=301866,302133,302400&m=11,12,17,23,28&sort=a8
Go with what you like and what will fit in your case. Check back in when you find something you like and someone will give you a thumbs up/down.
Still waiting for Captainpip to insult APU owners.
Why would anyone buy expencive ram for apu?
APU's are made for cheap pc's where gpu is there for non demanding gaming (yes i know the benchmarks apu's are fine)
The point is, if you want better gpu buy better gpu, if you want apu buy 5700 and any cheap FM2 mobo, and you are done...
Why would anyone buy 5800k/5600k and then expencive rams and mobos is beyond me...
The cost is still considerably lower for the performance.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
Anonymiter, How does this set of Ram look? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231550
Also, this is the mobo I have. http://www.microcenter.com/product/403601/GA-F2A55M-HD2_Socket_FM2_A55_mATX_AMD_Motherboard
Still waiting for UK-Recon to tell him he should have gotten an i7 3960X instead.
If you want some really nice RAM, then get one of these kits: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231638 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231587
Is the 2400 mhz needed? I thought 1866 would be fine...
The faster the ram is, the faster the integrated GPU will be. I would personally get the fastest stuff within my budget if I were building an APU system. I don't understand how people can say that 1600mhz is too slow and then say 1866mhz is fast enough, considering that it's only an increase of 266mhz. That's why I generally go with 2400mhz. It's really fast without being ungodly expensive like 2600mhz.
I like finding 2133 MHz, it's usually within ten dollars to the 1600 MHz stuff and it can usually handle moderate RAM overclocks, depending of course on the brand. Patriot Viper 3 looks amazing, but it has really poor stability past a 10-20% overclock. Either GeIL or G.Skill will get you some good speeds, but they both are absolutely hideous in terms of heat spreaders. Kingston HyperX Blue is really good and stable at stock speeds but won't take to an overclock at all. Corsair is very nice, but typically expensive. If it doesn't matter what it looks like then the G.Skill Sniper is some really badass RAM for the money. BTW, this costs the same as the Kingston HyperX Blue at 1600 MHz.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gskill-memory-f317000cl11d8gbsr
In response to that, it is more like an inverse logarithmic plot, it plateaus rather dramatically past 1866 MHz. You see a massive jump in performance from 1600 MHz to 1866 MHz, and then a moderate improvement to 2133 MHz, but past that you get dwindling returns unless you overclock the core clock of your integrated graphics.
Sorry about that, I totally just saw the comment where you gave a link to the motherboard, and it only supports 1866 MHz RAM. Which is really very sad. You should get an ASRock, if you can get high enough stock speeds of RAM, it would have no trouble supporting them, it just doesn't appreciate doing so without you telling it to.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HIt6
The motherboard is significantly nicer for the money, as it has two power phases just for the RAM, which would help to give you much more stability with overclocking it. The APU, not so much.
I would reccomend you to get a 2133mhz DDR3 RAM, with CL9(cas latency) if possible because you will probavly upgrade to Richland APU that is on the same FM2 socket and the motherboard that you get will need a BIOS update to make Richland run on it, Richland APU's can use 2133mhz DDR3 RAM out of the box and you will get max out of it. Richland is 15% faster than Trinity counterparts in CPU and GPU, Richlands GPU's are based on Radeon HD 8xxx series and if you want to go Dual Graphics, you can buy a Radeon HD 7xxx series for it and get great performance...
It all depends on your needs, A8 5600k has a aimed TDP of 100... But if you don't plan to OC you could get A8 5500 if I am correct, similar performance or just change and lower somethings to act as A8 5500 to have a TDP of around 65watts with similar performance and when you decide to OC you can return it back to original state and start OC-ing.
Pentium G860+ HD6850/HD7770ghz+massive future upgradability = beating any APU 7 ways into the sunset.
I'm an AMD fan, but I'm rocking an i7 in my Asus laptop and a Pentium G860 in my soon to arrive budget PC.
G860 is so cripled compared to APU's, it does not have Hyperthreading thus its not good... A10/A8 destroy G860 because they have 4 core's that are needed for multiplayer games and since APU has its own GPU inside its cheaper. When you combine an A10/A8 with Radeon HD 6670 1gb DDR3 in Dual Graphics mode, its performance is equal to Radeon HD 7770. G860 is outdated, it was barelly acceptable by the end of 2012... A fact.
G860 is comparable only to dual core APU's, quad core's APU's just destroy the G860 and non K APU's TDP is aimed at 65Watts while K ones that are overclockable are aimed at TDP of 100watts and remember APU's have CPU and GPU in one package. Later this guy can upgrade to Richland APU lineup that is 15% faster than Trinity counterpart and go Dual Graphics with Radeon HD 7xxx series since its GPU is based on Radeon HD 8xxx series and it will out of the box support 2133mhz DDR3 RAM. APU way is just a great bang of a buck...
Get 2133mhz DDR3 RAM, thats the max out of Trinity APU... Get a great cooler and OC the CPU and GPU for better performance. I hope you dont aim at 1080p gaming, right?