Although you rarely need more than 16GB for even the most strenuous of modern games, if you work a lot with video or photo editing tools and just want to future proof your system that bit more, you could opt for a 32GB kit. If you absolutely have to have the best and fastest kit money can buy though, you may want to hold out until the new year, as G.Skill has a very speedy kit on the horizon.
Made up of four 8GB modules, the G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 32GB kit can hit a stonking 4,000MHz right out of the box with impressively tight timings of CL18-18-18-38 at just 1.35v. If you know what you're doing in the BIOS, you can probably even get a little more out of them.
This beats out Corsair's recent unveiling of a similar kit at similar speeds, but with far looser timings of CL19-23-23-45, giving G.Skill a significant edge in latency.
This is all possible because of meticulously hand-binned DDR4 modules from Samsung, as Hexus explains, but that just means you get the absolute best memory available when you purchase one of these kits. Think of them as borderline artisanal products, handcrafted and selected for quality. That's effectively what they are.
In one test to prove that the kits work at these speeds, not just posting or booting into Windows, an AIDA64 benchmark reported a bandwidth of 101,106MBps which is simply astronomical. Anyone running memory intensive applications would likely show an impressive performance improvement with a kit like that.
It's just a shame they aren't launching until Q1 2018.
