What RAM Do you recommend for the A10-7870K APU?

[Anonymousfox]

Hello,

So I have recently upgraded my system and one of the components featured an upgrade from the a8-6600k to the a10-7870k, but i feel like i need new RAM because since i first brought my custom PC, i have brought my own parts and created my own and the only thing i never changed was my RAM, although however i have done some research on my RAM, and it's a dual channel Zeppelin 1333hz, and I'm not sure what RAM To get with my APU,

I'd like to add i have a A88X-PRO Motherboard, and I'm sorry this is a sloppy post, i had to rush this in 3minutes.

 

[Pisol]

I would go for 8GB of 1600MHz RAM. I assume you currently have only 4GB so that would be a good improvement in terms of speed and capacity.
Brands such as G.Skill, Corsair, the HyperX line from Kingston, they all make great memory sticks.
Get any 2x4GB kit from any of those and you should be great.

 

[Anonymousfox]

I would go for 8GB of 1600MHz RAM. I assume you currently have only 4GB so that would be a good improvement in terms of speed and capacity.
Brands such as G.Skill, Corsair, the HyperX line from Kingston, they all make great memory sticks.
Get any 2x4GB kit from any of those and you should be great.

Currently I have 8x2 Zepplin 1333Hz, I frequently get bluescreens relating to bad memory pool, bad memory header and stuff and I can only presume that the RAM is the thing that needs replacing in my system, is it more efficient if I get 4x2 or 8x2 or is it better if I just get an 8GB or a 16GB?

I was looking at some Gskill ripjaws Tridents, and they seemed pretty unique for my build, I would also like to add that I have a GTX 970 and there are some clear bottlenecking issues visible and I know that APU's are dependant on RAM so I am interested to see that if upgrading old, unbranded almost, low frequency ram will increase the APU's performance and therefore enabling me to get more performance out of my GTX 970 because it is clear that it is deperforming because of another component, and I think it's fair to say I can pin it on the RAM.

 

[madmatt30]

Ram speed makes no difference to the CPU portion of those amd chips - only the integrated graphics.

You went from a 6600k to a 7870k while using a 970?? You wasted a lot of money there mate , those chips are fairly equal apart from the integrated graphics (which you're not using)

 

[Anonymousfox]

Ram speed makes no difference to the CPU portion of those amd chips - only the integrated graphics.

You went from a 6600k to a 7870k while using a 970?? You wasted a lot of money there mate , those chips are fairly equal apart from the integrated graphics (which you're not using)

Ahh.. I see, so now that's out of the way, and it's clear that in order to stop the bottlenecking of my GPU, i'll need a CPU, what do you suggest?

A good motherboard would be helpful to know too, currently I have a A88X-PRO