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In regards to memory, when does anything above 1600 become useful ?
ex. 2133, 2000, 1866 etc...
I keep hearing mixed reviews... most of what I hear though is that it's doesnt boost anything much.
I only really started to think about this after reading MarkedOne telling people anything over 1600 is a waste of money. It's not just him though, some people have similar thoughts but are just saying all you really need is 1600.
ex. 2133, 2000, 1866 etc...
I keep hearing mixed reviews... most of what I hear though is that it's doesnt boost anything much.
I only really started to think about this after reading MarkedOne telling people anything over 1600 is a waste of money. It's not just him though, some people have similar thoughts but are just saying all you really need is 1600.
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Raja@ASUS wrote:
There aren't many real world applications that see a tangible performance gain to memory speeds over DDR3-1600. Modern memory controller architectures reorder requests to increase efficiency, which improves open page hits drastically. Tie that together with interleaving and you generally have enough bandwidth at DDR3-1600 to keep the cores fed with data.
So a system with for arguments sake 16GB DDR3 1600 would be just fine then, thats good to know but being thats the case. I may shoot myself in the foot with this one but if thats the case, why is memory marketed up to a current 2133 sandard ?
MoreBloodWine wrote:
MarkedOne telling people anything over 1600 is a waste of money. .
Hummm, I may say that you will not see improvement but I never say it’s a waste of money, because I’m a money waster and I care evenless when it's another one who pay. lol
Lol @ MO's response...
Well, as far as my uses goes... I would be doing ALOT of movie ripping / back up but the majority of what the system I'm building will be used for is a ton of gaming like WoW, Rift and msome other like Crysis 2 or whatever the name is (I keep hearin good reviews on the game so thought I'd give it a shot).
Well, as far as my uses goes... I would be doing ALOT of movie ripping / back up but the majority of what the system I'm building will be used for is a ton of gaming like WoW, Rift and msome other like Crysis 2 or whatever the name is (I keep hearin good reviews on the game so thought I'd give it a shot).
xeromist wrote:Little brain fried right now so forgive the stupidity if I asked this somewhere else but when might a person find having say over DDR3 1600 beneficial ?
Movie ripping is generally a CPU intensive process so your memory isn't going to be much of a factor. Games are likewise fairly CPU and GPU intensive.
Brian@ASUS wrote:
anything over 8gb in my opinion is either future proof or overkill.
For me it would be alot of future proofing if I were to max out at 16GB regardless of the memory standard selected since the system I'm building would have to last me at least 5+ years.
Brian@ASUS wrote:This is something I'd never considered before... as for higher overclocks.
sometimes having too much memory will lower the stability of your system in a higher overclock.
I guess that also depends on the CPU since you need a bigger leap to go from 3.2 to 4.0 then say from 3.8 to 4.0 where the first would be a higher overclock.
Forget the bulldozer for a second which I do want but here's what I'd be after for right now.
I'd like to take this processor and go to 4.0 which should be easy at a .3 bump but here's where a higher overclock would come in, ideally I'd like to see if I can push 4.5 but that aside I'm def gonna shoot for 4.0.
