Read more.4GB, 8GB, DDR3-1,600MHz, DDR3-2,133MHz - we make sense of it all.
Read more.4GB, 8GB, DDR3-1,600MHz, DDR3-2,133MHz - we make sense of it all.
As expected, RAM speed doesn't really matter. The cheapest 4GB kit is probably best for most people (and spend the rest on a fast boot drive).
I'm also reminded of the article (by corsair?) which points out the increased power consumption in the on-die memory controller caused by running faster memory. This wastes power, increases heat and therefore reduces life-span and maximum overclock. Of course they were trying to sell a cooling product, but to me it was a clear message not to buy fast RAM.
It would have been interesting to see the results of winrar compression (which other reviews have shown to be memory bandwidth sensitive).
i'd be more interested to see what difference lowering the latency's made to the benchmarks.
from other reviews i have seen the main difference is made by lowering the latency's rather than bumping the speed
I guess this goes to show just how pointless it was that I just got 12GB of DDR3 ram
The extra memory does make a difference if you're using Visual Studio. That beast chews up memory. It also helps with disk caching. I'm typically using 3.5GB to 4.0GB and the rest is used for cache. The more memory, the better.
Hmm anyone know where you can actually but the KHX1600C8D3K2_4GX?
All I came up with when I googled it was US websites selling it
Main PC: SUGO SG01B-F | MSI X79MA-GD45 | Core i7-3930k | 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2133 | 256GB Crucial M550 SSD (OS/Apps) | 5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (Data/Games) | MSI GTX970 Twin Frozr | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Server: HP 8300usdt | Core i7-2500S | 16GB Geil DDR3-1333 | 256GB Crucial M550 mSata SSD/HGST 1TB HDD | VMWare ESXi 5.5
NAS: Synology DS1813+ | 8x5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (30TB RAID 6)
HTPC: Shuttle SH67H3 | Core i5-2400S| 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 | 64GB Crucial M4 SSD | XBMC with AEON NOX skin | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Actually, try it with a forward-slash instead of underscore - KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX - and you do get a few results.
http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...205&sa=title#p
Ah, so you do
Thanks for the heads up!
Main PC: SUGO SG01B-F | MSI X79MA-GD45 | Core i7-3930k | 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2133 | 256GB Crucial M550 SSD (OS/Apps) | 5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (Data/Games) | MSI GTX970 Twin Frozr | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Server: HP 8300usdt | Core i7-2500S | 16GB Geil DDR3-1333 | 256GB Crucial M550 mSata SSD/HGST 1TB HDD | VMWare ESXi 5.5
NAS: Synology DS1813+ | 8x5TB Seagate Enterprise HDD (30TB RAID 6)
HTPC: Shuttle SH67H3 | Core i5-2400S| 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 | 64GB Crucial M4 SSD | XBMC with AEON NOX skin | Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
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