Question New help on choosing Ram 2400Mhz 10C vs 3200Mhz 16c

[MrVasarovsky]

Hi!
Just sold my old PC and building a new one from scratch, chose almost all parts but choice of RAM makes my head spin.

My setup is going to be: i9-9900k, Z390 Asus MEG ACE, 1080 Seahawk.

I've my eye on the following ram:

1. Corsair Dominator Platinum (4x8gb) 2400Mhz, C10
2. Corsair Dominator Platinum (2x16gb) 3200Mhz, C16

I'm not planning to OC like crazy, just a bit in few years if the will start lacking.
The Majority of Load will be coming from Gaming.

Do I need Dominator at all, or should i just take the LPX? I was looking at G.skill Trident, but people on forums say they are less reliable.

 

[compprob237]

Since you're using an Intel platform then most RAM kits should work fine.
The 3200C16 kit as technically slower than the 2400C10 kit. For a 3200 kit to match that 2400C10 kit it would need to be 3200C13. That C10 kit is pretty darn fast, honestly, and is probably why it is so much more expensive.

G.Skill Tridents depends on the kit. Since you're using an Intel platform it wont be "less reliable" since the only people complaining about "reliability" on a lifetime warranty kit are those trying to get Samsung D/E/S-die to run at DDR4-3200C14 (or better) with their Ryzens. Intel's aren't so picky.

Corsair's LPX are more aimed at being low profile for heatsink clearances. They aren't bad kits though.


Is there anything in particular that you need? I see you're aiming for 32GB of total RAM in these two examples but are you aiming for very high FPS gaming with something like a 144Hz monitor or are you gaming at 1440p/4K (high resolutions)?

 

[MrVasarovsky]

Since you're using an Intel platform then most RAM kits should work fine.
The 3200C16 kit as technically slower than the 2400C10 kit. For a 3200 kit to match that 2400C10 kit it would need to be 3200C13. That C10 kit is pretty darn fast, honestly, and is probably why it is so much more expensive.

G.Skill Tridents depends on the kit. Since you're using an Intel platform it wont be "less reliable" since the only people complaining about "reliability" on a lifetime warranty kit are those trying to get Samsung D/E/S-die to run at DDR4-3200C14 (or better) with their Ryzens. Intel's aren't so picky.

Corsair's LPX are more aimed at being low profile for heatsink clearances. They aren't bad kits though.


Is there anything in particular that you need? I see you're aiming for 32GB of total RAM in these two examples but are you aiming for very high FPS gaming with something like a 144Hz monitor or are you gaming at 1440p/4K (high resolutions)?

32gb - since i do a lot of multitasking daily with dozens of tabs open all the time and current 16gb ddr3 was not enough, as for gaming it will be on 144hz 2560x1080 (ultrawide) monitor.

So basically it's worth looking at G.skill since they do offer 3200C14 at a good price?

Talking about 2400C10 vs 3200C16, there are a lot of discussions and seen tests that showed Speed to be more important than latency. So might the 2400 be just too little even with low latency?

 

[compprob237]

32gb - since i do a lot of multitasking daily with dozens of tabs open all the time and current 16gb ddr3 was not enough, as for gaming it will be on 144hz 2560x1080 (ultrawide) monitor.

So basically it's worth looking at G.skill since they do offer 3200C14 at a good price?

Talking about 2400C10 vs 3200C16, there are a lot of discussions and seen tests that showed Speed to be more important than latency. So might the 2400 be just too little even with low latency?

Speed effects your max framerates. Latency just effects things like responsiveness and when you have FPS drops ("1% and 0.1% lows") so it's actually a combination of speed and latency to get the best performance. The 3200C14 kit would be the best compromise since it is darn close to the 2400C10 in latency and offers significantly higher frequency.

3466C15 would be another step slightly faster than the 3200C14.
3600C15 faster than that (obviously) and matches the 2400C10 kit in latency but I think at this point the prices get ridiculous.

To quickly determine the latency of a kit take the C number and divide by the frequency. The lower the number the lower the latency.

 

[MrVasarovsky]

Speed effects your max framerates. Latency just effects things like responsiveness and when you have FPS drops ("1% and 0.1% lows") so it's actually a combination of speed and latency to get the best performance. The 3200C14 kit would be the best compromise since it is darn close to the 2400C10 in latency and offers significantly higher frequency.

3466C15 would be another step slightly faster than the 3200C14.
3600C15 faster than that (obviously) and matches the 2400C10 kit in latency but I think at this point the prices get ridiculous.

To quickly determine the latency of a kit take the C number and divide by the frequency. The lower the number the lower the latency.

Thanks, I really appreciate that you devoted the time for the details. It helped me to decide and i went for 2x16 G.Skill Trident 3200Mhz c14. I did think about 3600Mhz c15, but they only go as 4x8 and i didn't want to put extra stress on the pc