Hmmm, what RAM speed should I go for?

What's up?!

I've been debating on getting a RAM upgrade from 4 gig DDR3 to 8 gigs, especially since DDR3 RAM is currently still fairly low price-wise. The RAM I have now is rated for 1600MHz, and after many weeks of maxing out a system overclock, I still haven't gotten the RAM to operate at 1600MHz. Maybe I'm missing something with it, but whatever.

The RAM I'm looking at is an OCZ kit of 8 gigs rated for 1600MHz, but knowing that I haven't been able to get to that speed, is it worth it to go for that or a kit that is rated at 1333MHz? I know that common overclocking knowledge dictates that RAM should be rated for around 1600 for stable overclocking, but can I get the 1333MHz kit and overclock it to where the system is stable or stick with the 1600 kit?

Thanks!

I'd get something like Kingston's HyperX 8GB kit, rated at 1600MHz. This assumes that your chipset and motherboard supports this speed.

Wishmaster that "problem" is by design, the memory controller is designed to only work with 1333 MHz,

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING AMD AM3 CPU's and RAM SPEEDS

stormy13 said:

Wishmaster that "problem" is by design, the memory controller is designed to only work with 1333 MHz,

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING AMD AM3 CPU's and RAM SPEEDS

Hmm, wow, that is fairly interesting. Thanks for that.

Zen00 said:

As it is, the general advice I was given was, "buy one speed above where your normally going to be". In reality, it's all about the timings, try to get one with as low of timings as possible.

I looked for some kits yesterday and it seems that advice is actually pretty good. The lowest I found was 7-7-7-21.