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Telecaster · 2 Mar 2015 at 16:10

How much improvement, if any, is noticeable with lower latency memory?

I ask because I currently have 8GBs of 1600mhz CL11 and I'm wondering whether it's worth upgrading at all to something like 16GBs of 1600mhz C8 or 16GBs of 1866mhz C9.

Cheers.

wazza300 · 2 Mar 2015 at 18:28

theres not much in it tbh other than benchmarking

you might manage to lower the cas 11 to around cas 10 or cas 9 with some tweaking and extra imc voltage

Telecaster · 2 Mar 2015 at 20:58

TBH mate I'm a complete novice at overclocking/twaeking, the most I've done is just change the multi and volts on my 2500k, I don't understand all the little intricacies of it all, too many random acronyms!

The only reason I ask is that judging from a few bits I've read, latency has more impact on performance than frequency, anything over 1600mhz doesn't seem to make any appreciable difference.

wazza300 · 2 Mar 2015 at 22:10

What board you have? You can test by changing the command rate/cas to 10 and add one or two clicks more memory controller voltage

Telecaster · 2 Mar 2015 at 23:05

MSI Z77IA-E53

mcm4mcm · 20 Mar 2015 at 14:46

Try changing your CAS latency in the bios from 2 to 1, this is a quick way to speed up your system.

Your can buy some low latency 1866 or 2133 ram that will make your system feel quicker, but I would advise reading some more ram reviews 1st, I have the same board as you and love benchmarking to get the last few points but in games there is a small difference unless you are running something like an AMD APU that thives on higher memory speeds.