I am buying the FX-8350 in a few weeks and need good ram. I've read the FX-8350 only supports up to 1866 Mhz, and some others forums say it supports 2133 Mhz. I just want to know which one is right because I want fast ram.
Thanks.
The FX cpu's have 1866mhz memory controllers but that dosent mean you cant add higher speed ram with them allto anything 1600mhz is fine there is no need for higher anless you are useing something that can actualy benefit from high speed ram gameing whont make any diffence with useing faster ram anless you are useing on board video that takes system ram.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0L_KFKJYvg
As a gamer, would I benefit from having 2133mhz instead of 1866mhz?
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only time i've seen worth while performance gains form RAM is with APU's. i use 1866 and 2133 on my two apu builds, but just regular 'ol 1600 low latency ram for my 8350. be a rebel, don't buy into the speed hype
Do you overclock? If you do, you probably won't be able to run RAM at higher speeds. Faster RAM won't really have any tangible effects while gaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgzA2C61z4
For the 8350 unless you're doing productivity oriented tasks, i would stick with some low latency 1600mhz ram (CL9 or lower). I've got some G.Skill Ripjaw Z 2133Mhz @ CL9 which is quite impressive but the performance is only noticeable during rendering tasks, in gaming, maybe 1fps..nothing that great.
Doing a render on Maya/Max i got a nice 20% improvement from going 2133Mhz but on other tasks like video rendering on After Effects or Premier, it's not that great because the GPU does EVERYTHING on those programs. while modelling programs use CPU, GPU, and RAM for every task.
I would echo this reply. For gaming its just not really worth it. Better to invest your money on that 1 generation better videocard that might get you 10fps whereas the 2133 RAM might get you 1fps. And for about the same investment.
A good way to get more performance from the 8350 would be to overclock the NorthBridge which is easily done and proven to give a modest FPS boost.
whats better for overclocking? lower latency ram or higher frequency?
I think the better spot is somewhere in between, For me 1866 cl9 works very well for OC.
yes true, though i wouldn't be so set on overclocking the northbridge because AMD has a weird performance curve after 2600mhz on NB and 2200mhz CPU/NB. CPU/NB is where the RAM and CPU work together and the NB is where the CPU and GPU work together. the CPU/NB doesn't really gain much performance past 2200 unless you have ram that forces you to have higher clock. I've pushed my NB to 3000mhz and the gain was maybe 5% and forces 10% more energy to produce that. Not a very good gain at all...2600mhz is the sweet spot for a reason.