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About: Hz and Channels and stuff

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Tiffanys:
Not all motherboards even run that frequency or timing.

kitamesume:
^most of ivy bridge motherboard are set to 1333 default, 1600 max.
ivy bridge's built-in ram controller's max frequency is 1600mhz, except the lower-end pentium and celeron.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29

same thing goes for haswell, it may have 1600 as default even.

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: Tiffanys on January 26, 2013, 07:03:32 AM ---You can get a ton of great air coolers for pretty cheap, like $20-50.

And yeah, eVGA is the best brand for GPU's... such amazing warranties.

--- End quote ---

damn you tiffany! You made me look into them and now I spent 20 extra dlls and I got myself a Cooler Master Heatsink >:(

Tiffanys:
lol. Just make sure it fits your CPU socket.

Saras:
You could also encounter vRAM problems if you intend to play a lot of games with a lot of mods. As they don't tend to be optimized.

What concerns clock speeds. No one is stopping you from over clocking the same card. You are likely to end up with higher clocks as well, if you're willing to push it. Unless you're really shitty at the silicon lottery.

As for ram, get two 8gig sticks if it isn't too much pricier than the four 4gig sticks. There's no real difference performance wise and there's less stuff to go wrong. However, I wouldn't spend an extra 20$ for that difference. So just get whatever you can for cheaper.

And even then, ram doesn't really affect the performance of a current gen intel system with a dedicated card. Don't overpay for super low timings or over-clocked sticks. You won't notice a thing.

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