I'm about to purchase the parts for my rig, but I'd like to make sure that Kingston HyperX beast RAM running at 2400 mhz will run at the advertised speed on an Asus m5a99fx pro r2.0 with an FX-8350.
The board supports a max speed of 2133MHz.
Why are you buying such expensive ram with a budget motherboard anyway?
I'm fairly new to the computer part world. What would be a good motherboard for those pieces?
Why do you need 2400 mhz ramm anyway?
cause 1866mhz is also fine, cause in gaming there wont be a noticable diffrence.
and The Asus M5A99FX pro R2.0 is a great board. one of the better 99fx boards to get.
Faster RAM will help stabilize your frame rates a bit better, and give you higher average FPS, and higher minimal FPS overall.
Anything around 2400mhz, however, really depends on the memory controller of the CPU. Most i5/i7 chips can do 2400mhz without an issue though.
But RAM tested at 2400mhz stable (meaning these have 2400mhz as optimal stock frequencies, and can overclock higher, sometimes much higher) is VERY expensive compared to most 1600/1866.
Personally I think 1866 or 2133 (if you can get a good deal) is the sweet spot; anything above those speeds become incrementally more expensive and price/performance gets horribly worse.
I think getting some low latency (like CAS 9), 1.5v 1866mhz RAM will probably be the best you can get for a good price. There is a lot to choose from, and remember, you can always overclock the memory to higher frequencies, going from 1866 to 2000mhz is pretty easy in most cases.
yea with intergrated graphics like the ivy bridge have, there its a point, about higher clocked memory, but with amd fx, i dont see, why its a noticable diffrence wenn it comes to gaming..
ofc there might be some diffrence, but i think with an amd FX with dedicated gpu, there wont be any noticable diffrence.( but ofc i can also be wrong ☻) wenn it comes to gaming.
to me for gaming 1600mhz or 1866mhz will do just fine.