1600 v 1866mhz

jamesaltria · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:40

Just curious as to what the actual difference is between them and why 1600mhz seems so much more common than 1866mhz in peoples rigs. Cheers

Lonz · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:42

Price I'd imagine, as the performance difference isn't going to be all that noticeable.

dave_beast · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:44

Tbh, with looser timings and a little more volts, most 1600mhz ram will clock to 1866mhz.

Defconluke · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:48

In CPU-Z go to the SPD tab and select a piece of RAM.
It should show you rough timings and volts to start with which makes it really easy to change.

MrJosh86_mk2 · 5 Jan 2013 at 14:41

I recently went from 8GB 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance to 16GB 1866MHz Corsair Dominator - and in terms of speed i have noticed no difference at all.

Orcvader · 5 Jan 2013 at 15:13

Hardly enough performance difference between the two, so best go with the one that will save you money to spend on other parts of the PC.

Although if you're using something like AMD's APUs, then the faster RAM will give the inbuilt GPU a good performance boost.