Kingston 2133 MHz 8 GB HyperX Beast XMP on a X79-UD5 motherboard

[Irontoe]

Hey,

I am running a X79-UD5 from Gigabyte, with a Intel i7-3820 CPU.

I am thinking about buying the above mentioned RAM, and I was hoping some of you had some experience with it.

Will it work - and will I get the upgrade I am hoping for?

Currently it's running 4x4 GB Kingston 1333 MHz HyperX.

 

[helpstar]

What are you hoping for? Gaming, professional use like video editing, rendering, CAD, photo editing?

Do you wanna replace the RAM or add it to your current 16GB?
if adding it, it would just run with 1333MHz

do you wanna replace it and install 4 of them?

if you don´t wanna overclock I would prefer 1600MHz because the standard memory clock controller of the CPU is 1600MHz and these modules have a CAS latency of only CL9, the 2133 have CL11
but buy what´s cheaper, the 2133 can run with 1600MHz at CL9 too

 

[Irontoe]

What are you hoping for? Gaming, professional use like video editing, rendering, CAD, photo editing?

Do you wanna replace the RAM or add it to your current 16GB?
if adding it, it would just run with 1333MHz

do you wanna replace it and install 4 of them?

I would be used for gaming mostly.

I would wanna replace the old 4 RAM blocks, and just replace them with 2 new ones.

So I would still have 16 GB - but it would ran with a higher frequency wouldn't it?

 

[helpstar]

that´s not a good idea, your motherboard and CPU are quad channel compatible. If you change that to only two, the system will run at dual channel. Don´t really know if this would decrease the system speed, but I think so.

But I´m sure that won´t boost performance in any way.

 

[Irontoe]

So what you're saying is - if I wanna upgrade them, I should go for at least 4 blocks in quad channel?

Would I be better off with a new set of 4x8 GB?

Maybe something like:

Kingston HyperX Savage - 4x8GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800 CL9?

 

[helpstar]

Yes, if upgrading, go for at least 4 modules.

What I definitely know is that for gaming only, you have no reason to upgrade your memory. 16GB are more than enough for games, would even say overkill, and between 1333MHz and 2133MHz there will not be a boost of performance at all