Which Ram is better?

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crucial 8gb 1866mhz---> CL9 (51,90 €)

patriot viper 3 8gb 2133mhz---> CL11 (69,90€)

 

 

I don't mind paying the extra money, if it's better. But is the viper 3 better? And how much? Is it worth the 10 bucks? Or even worse? How much does CL9 make a diffrence?

Thanx :}

 

 

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For gaming the lower timings will matter more over the faster speed. You won't notice a differance between 1866 and 2133 in the slightest. But you'll gain about a total of 2 fps from CL9 over CL11. So it doesn't really matter honestly. Just get the cheaper one.

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Strictly for gaming, you're splitting hairs. I'd go for the cheaper stuff. The lower latency can help more in gaming vs higher bandwidth.

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and for anything else then gaming? Like rendering Video etc.? I am not doing it (not now), but I just want to know.

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For video rendering, lower timings will be much more important than the faster speed as well. 

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ok, thanks!

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its always best to go with the ram speed your cpu supports nativley. you can throw in ram thats way faster but you dont get any real world benefit other than in benchmarks.

so buy the fastest ram your cpu supports with the lowest latency.

the ram you listed has very similar perfomance because the lower latency on the slower ram makes it as efficent as the faster ram with higher latency.

so if your going intel i5/i7 then ddr3 1600 c8 or less, for amd fx ddr3 1866 c9 or less. this is a rule of thumb that has worked for me for 20+ years. the 1 exception is with apu's when you are not gonna attach a dedicated gfx card. then you buy the fastest ram you can afford up to the max your motherboard(not cpu) supports because the apugpu can take advantage of the extra speed in real world perfomance...

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its always best to go with the ram speed your cpu supports nativley. you can throw in ram thats way faster but you dont get any real world benefit other than in benchmarks.

so buy the fastest ram your cpu supports with the lowest latency.

the ram you listed has very similar perfomance because the lower latency on the slower ram makes it as efficent as the faster ram with higher latency.

so if your going intel i5/i7 then ddr3 1600 c8 or less, for amd fx ddr3 1866 c9 or less. this is a rule of thumb that has worked for me for 20+ years. the 1 exception is with apu's when you are not gonna attach a dedicated gfx card. then you buy the fastest ram you can afford up to the max your motherboard(not cpu) supports because the apugpu can take advantage of the extra speed in real world perfomance...

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Wow! Great explanation! Thanks again!

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thanks folks

 

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I wasn't able to find this in: "my stuff" anymore. Google helped, we need a search button. :)