The Fastest RAM for Your Gaming PC

This ironic question has come up for me again, this time, I speak. 1) I do build my own desktops, from cradle to grave maintenance, and have little issues. 2) Been doing this for 18 years, so I have made a few mistakes. So to the RAM question: I have found no difference in "Gaming" ram compared to "regular" ram. The key is this: If your motherboard has 4 DIMMS, then you have room. Most do, some oddly only have two. I have a two year old PC, running 8Gb of 240pin DDR3 1600 SDRAM. With the addition of Fallout 4 and running some background programs, my ram was depleting. I added another 8Gb of the same type of ram, but from a different company. I have seen no issues. Ram is at the point where it is inexpensive, so having 16Gb is not an issue, and generally most people will not use it. Neither company or pairs are high end, yet I still can keep up with all my requirements without missing a beat. So is high end needed, it is purely up to you. On a side note, great ventilation for your case is important. RAM needs to dissipate heat somehow, so good airflow will help reduce issues caused by overheating.

A few years ago when I built my rig I had 16gb (4x4), but since games have gotten a bit more progressive I'm sure it's going to be the minimum requirement soon enough.

SGT (Join to see) - I use high end RAM in all of my gaming PC builds. Call it superstition, but the main reason is reliability. When I have bought the bargain RAM for Kingston and Corsair, I have always had at least one stick go bad or was DOA. SGT Jonathan Hoffman - RAM is RAM can be considered correct for general computing. If you do tasks that are RAM intensive, gaming, sound and video editing, photo editing, etc... using high end RAM will give you overall better performance. In the end though, it is up to the purchaser to decide what they want to spend the money on.