Does memory speed matter much?

[Jonny Chee]

A friend of mine says memory speed doesn't really make much difference.

The reason I ask is that my memory is pretty slow, 1333Mhz and am considering upgrading soon.

Is it worth it?

 

[Jonny Chee]

have you tried to overclock or tighten the timings? Get memtest on a pendrive and have a crack.

Usually the difference is memory bandwidth and whether thats important to you, but I would say that 1,333mhz to higher spec'ed ram would not be readily noticable, unless you're working on huge images in photoshop and applying loads of filters.

Not tried anything like that with memory. Wouldn't know where to start. Time to do some research.