So many misinformed people out there fark. thats why i mostly stay here. what i am trying to say that buying bettter specced ram does is not worth the money over it. so many misinformed people out there.
now to the people who have seen the names on the first upload on these please of the love of what deity is up there don't tell anyone else and if you somehow saved the names please delete them. they are just people who have been heavily misinformed.
Yep, it's marketing at it's worst. Whether it's Mhz in computing or Megapixles in photography, the numbers are advertised as meaning more = faster speed / better quality etc. It's hard to explain to some people that it really isn't the case. I've had a kid with a 40mp Nokia phone camera tell me his camera is better than my 3d mkIII.. yeah keep telling yourself that lol.
Case and point the latest DDR4 is rated at 3666Mhz, yet has a CAS latency of 18.. It's a great acheivement in terms of benchmarking, but real world there will be limited difference between that and CAS 12/13 of the low 2000Mhz stuff. Not only in gaming, but even in professional applications I've yet to see any notable difference when editing and rendering.
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People just think that because it's a higher number, it's better. When it comes to gaming, i agree it doesn't really matter. But productivity wise, you have to look at the ideal combination of good speed and low latency.
Though i saw that you can get Kingston hyperx predator at 2666mhz and CL13 for about 280$/€ which is pretty good considering what you could get half a year ago
It's all about the numbers you see printed with pop-up colors on boxes these days.
Smh, lesson learnt: Don't expect decent hardware advice on Facebook.
too bad the group that the image that i posted was suprisingly Australia PC Gamers and Enthusiasts.
Yeah, but it's Facebook. There's more 12 year olds on Facebook than the LTT forums.
That's one damn heavy statistic to get your head around.
Your "knowledge" is just conventional tech wisdom and your opponent thinks that higher number = better without actually knowing anything about computers. You're both wrong.
RAM speed CAN increase performance. Especially on Haswell. But it's not going to be your main problem. If your bottleneck is somewhere else you're better off addressing that. But if you have a killer Haswell system for example with only 1600Mhz RAM, buying a 2400Mhz will give you a pretty decent performance increase in some games. Not all of them of course. But BF3 and BF4 are the most notorious examples, and now GTA V is as well. I don't know about others. The conventional wisdom that RAM speed doesn't matter makes it pretty hard to find RAM benchmarks for most games.
But take a look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/345t4m/benchmark_results_memoryram_is_extremely/
My advice would be if you're on a budget, then just get as much RAM as you need first and worry about speed only if you can afford it. Like I said, it's not the most important thing when it comes to performance, but it can matter quite a bit. If you can afford to go higher then you should go higher.
I think the sweet spot right now for price/performance is actually 1866Mhz, not 1600. If you buy in bulk it's the same price as 1600. Some brands of RAM can be overclocked quite a bit if you have the right motherboard, so it's not just a numbers game. Using the right RAM for your motherboard can make a big difference as well, usually manufacturers include a list of modules that have been tested on the board.
There are times when higher ram speed matters, take a look at the A10 APU, 1600mhz vs 2100mhz ram big difference there.
