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Benchmark Scores well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?
I am reading for days reviews and in this price point (150€) for gaming and OC the best choices are Asus Z170-A and Pro Gaming which are almost the same.
i just avoid asus on almost everything ..but if the board meets all your expectations it's great!
 
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I am pretty sure about this MB but my concern are the rams.I am looking for a kit that the xmp works at 3000mhz or higher and in the QVL there are so few kits mostly 4*4gb.
Has anyone the same MB(Z170-A) with a ram kit at 3000mhz that can suggest me?
 
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I am pretty sure about this MB but my concern are the rams.I am looking for a kit that the xmp works at 3000mhz or higher and in the QVL there are so few kits mostly 4*4gb.
Has anyone the same MB(Z170-A) with a ram kit at 3000mhz that can suggest me?

I had the same "problem" finding a 16GB kit in my country, ended up with these 4x4 3000MHz sticks corsair vengeance lpx.
I'm happy with it, all slots filled but 16GB should be enough for gaming for many years to come I think.
 
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I had the same "problem" finding a 16GB kit in my country, ended up with these 4x4 3000MHz sticks corsair vengeance lpx.
I'm happy with it, all slots filled but 16GB should be enough for gaming for many years to come I think.
If these work so 99% these Corsair work too right?
 

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Benchmark Scores well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?
but 16GB should be enough for gaming for many years to come I think.
i have 16Gb ram since 2012-2013 and let me tell you that have been so great, and i bet they will be great foranother 5 years moooar !
 
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I did not take the risk, that will be up to you then if they are not on the QVL list. (did you check?)
They aren't but yours are...tough decision...
 
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Well personally I only want to buy memory whats on the QVL list, so that I'm sure they will run at their rated speed.
Thats just me.
 

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Benchmark Scores well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?
They aren't but yours are...tough decision...
why not getting memory that form the confirmed list?

Well personally I only want to buy memory whats on the QVL list, so that I'm sure they will run at their rated speed.
Thats just me.
agreed, is better to go safe with the confirmed / certified compatible parts...

Regards,
 
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why not getting memory that form the confirmed list?


agreed, is better to go safe with the confirmed / certified compatible parts...

Regards,
Thats right but giving 15€ more for the same rams at 4*4 is a little shame.
 
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What at the time more annoyed me was that there were no 2x8 kits available in my country that were on the QVL list, so had to go with 4x4.
I didn't look much at the price.
 
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I found these Kingston hyperx that they are in the QVL.What do you say?
 

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Benchmark Scores well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?
Thats right but giving 15€ more for the same rams at 4*4 is a little shame.
4x4 its great, if a stick dies you just replace it ... and got no a big loss, but when a 8GB stick dies, you will just have another 8gb stick ... my last memory was 4x4GB patriot memory kit, intel extreme masters one...
I found these Kingston hyperx that they are in the QVL.What do you say?
great memory, i have used DDR3 and DDR4 on customer's builds, great price and excellent performance, they are compatible with almost all hardware out there !

Regards,


Regards.
 
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Consider this
That cpu you got is not much of a bottleneck. From what Linus from Tech Tips has to say, your gonna get a 10 fps in your games with that skylake . Wish i could give you the link, just look through his channel.
I'd say w8 for october. There is a 50% chance , maybe more to see a release from AMD Zen. The cpu that you have is fine, and so is mine. I have less than you, but it's enough, i also do photoshop and adobe premiere. Your gonna get a little bit more from that 6600k . Benchmarks show one thing, real life is less exciting.
Save your money. Don't be in a rush.

P.S. I was a sceptic, on the ssd. Not any more. So if you wanna see real life speed in your pc. Go with a ssd. You will not regret it.
There will be a huge surprise with amd zen, and even if it';s gonna be october ,or maybe late december, even next year 2017 february. You are good with that graphics card and cpu for gaming.
Think about it.... if you really wanted, or afforded 4k ultra high gaming , you would have got a different computer. So your gaming 1080 and with new cpu & ram , your gonna gain 10 fps more at your 1080 gaming.
Think about it. Save your money.
 
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