fffblackmage
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The fact that a stick of ram needs more voltage to operate means it has to be pushed harder in order to perform at its rated specs. It's good for performance, but you usually sacrifice reliability.
In general, timings don't have a significant effect on overall system performance. DDR3-1333 in dual channel already provides a lot of bandwidth, so I think 1600MHz ram is kinda overkill. However, I suggested DDR3-1600 because it gives you some flexibility when OCing. When you bump up the base clock, you also increase memory clock speed. The standard memory clock speed for i5/i7-8xx is just 1333MHz, so DDR3-1600 should leave you some headroom before you also bump the memory past 1600MHz.
