PhillyG76
Established Member
Hi, I have a desktop built with an Asus Z370-G mATX board, Intel 9600k cpu, EVGA RTX2080XC GPU, Samsung 970 pro SSD, and two 16Gb Corsair vengeance LPX ram sticks at 3,000 MHz. I’m thinking of upgrading the ram for faster spec, but it seems that there’s not many options for 16gb sticks. Also with having a matx board, I think I need to stick to low profile types, and I do like the Corsair ones. But I’d rather by one 16GB stick than two 8GB ones, because, and I know this is overkill, but I plan to get up to the full 64GB just for future proofing and also because doing it but by bit is not too expensive. Also, I will probably change the motherboard and maybe fit a normal ATX size one and better cpu. But not sure what type of RAM to go for, have seen Corsair 3,200 MHz at C16 (all I know is this is something to do with latency and the lower the better), but also seen 3,600Mhz but C18. It seems that higher latency can be cancelled out with higher clock speeds but I don’t know by how much. But generally speaking, what do most people think would be better 3,600mhz C18 or 3,200mhz C16? I’ll probably go for the 3,200mhz, as it’s a lot cheaper. But are there other brands worth looking at? Many thanks for your help. Finally, is it worth upgrading to a 9900k cpu, or just wait for newer chipsets and boards?