Should I Upgrade to g.skill from Crucial?

[dslatsh]

I've been trying to figure this out, I wanted to upgrade my ddr 3, i currently use 32gbs of crucial 1600 balistix sport and wanted to get a set of maybe 32gbs again (my wife been talking about video editing) of 2400 g.skill sniper since they're on sale. The build I have is an AMD 8370 at 4.7 with an asrock fatal1ty 990fx killer.

People have said your CPU has to support the higher rate which they say the fx series doesn't support 2400...but the motherboard says it can support 2450 O.C but doesn't mention 2400...would I be fine using the g.Skill ram and be able to get it to 2400?

 

[Geekwad]

You would notice no perceptible changes with the faster RAM with your use-case. 32Gb of RAM is also plenty for a starter video editor (comfortably so, I might add).

That said, because the motherboard supports it, it will work at the faster speed (though with different timings). I know it would make sense that the speed, being 33% faster, should equate to noticeably improved performance, but again you'd hardly notice it. It would show up in benchmarks, but the second or so you'd save in just the right use-case makes it not worth it....at least IMHO.

Better, for an editor, would be more and faster storage, also a second SSD to 'scratch' on (work on the files at hand).

 

[dslatsh]

Would it improve gaming performance at all, or would that be pretty minimal?

 

[Geekwad]

Would it improve gaming performance at all, or would that be pretty minimal?

Extraordinarily minimal.

 

[gskill support]

DDR3-2400 can be stressful for that CPU and motherboard, DDR3-2133 is more common with a combination like that. The FX-9590 is better for DDR3-2400.