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1866mhz cl9 or 2133mhz cl11. Which is better. what is more important: timing or frequency?
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
That is really going to be the same difference.. the 2133Mhz may be a little slower. That said, there is no point in buying anything more than DDR3 1600mhz as faster memory shows little to no gains outside of benchmarking.
 
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If you are limiting your choice to those, the 1866 CL9 will likely run 2133 CL11 with some manual tweaking.

I recently bought 16GB of G.Skill Sniper CL9 2133 @ $54 per 8GB. Here - The price point is the best I could find.

The latency with DDR3 is much mor of a factor than it was with DDR or DDR2. The 1866CL9 will be pretty close in performance to 2133CL11
 
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