Ivy Bridge in gaming: The importance of L3 cache, multiple cores, CPU clock speed and RAM speed

Inspired by Corsair's recent article about Battlefield 4 and memory speed ( http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/bf4-loves-high-speed-memory ) I did my own tests and wrote my own article about this subject and related matters.

Battlefield 4 included, many games benefit from faster RAM in noticeable framerate improvements, or simply, faster load times, less noticeable stutters or framerate drops.
Actual benefit for framerate can probably only be observed under a certain condition, which is what some people didn't take into account, thus didn't see a difference in their FPS.

 

You can read the whole article on overclock.net

http://www.overclock.net/t/1441273/ivy-bridge-in-gaming-the-importance-of-l3-cache-multiple-cores-cpu-clock-speed-and-ram-speed/0_100

Comments, questions etc. are very welcome.


Thanks!

- J