I am looking for advice regarding what memory set to buy...
I have the i5 2500K, in the ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 and I am shopping for 16GB (2x8) DDR3.
I am not planning on OC'ing the i5 right away, but as I learn I want to leave that door open.
I am a bit confused in terms of the speed of the RAM I want:
What I mean is that I was going to choose 1600, but when I looked up the PCU and it says it only works w/ up to 1333.
Does that mean 1600 will never run faster than 1333 even if I get into OC later?
Should I just buy 1333, or will that effect me in the future w/ OC'ing?
Perhaps some of my questions are answered in the OCing forum, but I haven't found the right thing to answer what I am wondering about.
Also, If I was to buy the 1333 now, and add 2 more sticks in the future would they need to match the speed of the first set I have already in order to work?
Thank you to anyone taking the time to answer my post...
If it needs to be known, to help with my query, this is a new build from scratch; mainly used for gaming, streaming video, and digital photography editing.
I have the i5 2500K, in the ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 and I am shopping for 16GB (2x8) DDR3.
I am not planning on OC'ing the i5 right away, but as I learn I want to leave that door open.
I am a bit confused in terms of the speed of the RAM I want:
What I mean is that I was going to choose 1600, but when I looked up the PCU and it says it only works w/ up to 1333.
Does that mean 1600 will never run faster than 1333 even if I get into OC later?
Should I just buy 1333, or will that effect me in the future w/ OC'ing?
Perhaps some of my questions are answered in the OCing forum, but I haven't found the right thing to answer what I am wondering about.
Also, If I was to buy the 1333 now, and add 2 more sticks in the future would they need to match the speed of the first set I have already in order to work?
Thank you to anyone taking the time to answer my post...
If it needs to be known, to help with my query, this is a new build from scratch; mainly used for gaming, streaming video, and digital photography editing.