4gb @ 1600mhz or 6gb @ 1333mhz

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As above really what would give me the best gains. I currently have 4gb (4x1gb) of 1333mhz Ram and have bought 4gb (2x2gb) of 1600 mhz XMS 3 Ram. Would I benefit more having just the XMS 3 on its own or with 2 x 1gb I believe its samsung and running at 1333mhz. Pc is used for gaming...

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Not really much difference if you're just gaming. 4GB is perfectly sufficient, and RAM speed makes **** all difference to fps. Ram speed only really matters if you do syntehtic benchmarks.

Go for the 6GB.
 
if your system is overclocked, stick to the matched 4gb sets. Its fine for what you need it for, the speed of the ram will mean load times are faster.

Ram is cheap enough that you can go to 8gb when you want to. I'd sell the other RAM.
 
Seeing as two of my Ram sticks are sat under my Cpu cooler I'm going to be leaving them in for now as I really cannot be bothered removing the cooler. When I have found another matching set of XMS 3 at a decent price I will replace them then.
So 6gb of 1333 it is for now.
 
I fancy boys said:
Yes. I phrased it poorly, but during "game loading" data is being moved from the HDD to the RAM and vice versa. Faster RAM and tighter timings mean that this time is reduced, especially if you have an SSD.
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well the SSD makes a difference, but the ram wont make jack :)
 
MOOGLEYS said:
No SSD's in my system only old school mechanical drives...
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yeah we know ;), I was reffering to his post about speed of loads and using memory and the SSD.

in your case the memory wont make jack difference to the load, you would still have plenty free, and even at 1333 with 6GB the memory throughput would be 25+x more then your drives
 
Its_Me said:
well the SSD makes a difference, but the ram wont make jack :)
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I swear it does :p ,otherwise why go for faster RAM in the first place?

I remember upgrading from pc2700 CAS4 to pc3200 with a CAS2 and being shocked how much my load times had decreased by :cool: maybe its all in my head, or maybe it doesnt make much difference now days, but i remember reading articles about it.
 
As long as you have enough RAM, the actual speed of it will make no noticeable difference to you, even going from single to dual channel only makes about 1-2% to average fps. As someone said earlier only synthetic benchmarks really show any meaningful difference in performance.
 
I moved from 1600mhz to 1333mhz recently (as it was cheaper) and I found practically no difference at all.

Maybe in the future the Mobos can get to a decent speed for the RAM, but I don't think its going to happen for a few good years yet!
 
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