Pro's and Cons of Expensive Memory

Predicament · 9 May 2011 at 19:52

Would this really perform so much better than this?

The Genesis Grey is more than TWICE the price but can the same be said for performance?

RAM 1) [ Expensive ]
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB 2133MHz
Ram 2) [ Inexpensive]Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB 1333MHz

Scon · 9 May 2011 at 19:54

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-063-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

Much better choice tbh, look better too.

Not sure how much better they would be though.

Predicament · 9 May 2011 at 19:58

@ burrell:

I am not looking to purchase RAM. My question was purely theoretical.

Thanks for your response anyways bud.

cmndr_andi · 9 May 2011 at 20:05

This review compares 1333MHz, 1600Mhz, 1866MHz and 2133MHz CL9 RAM in Sandy bridge systems (and P55 and X58). As you can see, there is a small performance increase in some applications, but generally it is tiny. As you can imagine, sandy bridge combined with 1333MHz dual channel DDR3 RAM is usually offers plenty of bandwidth and going for much faster more expensive RAM doesn't make sense unless you are doing mission critical stuff. Usually the money is much better spent on a faster CPU/GPU or towards an SSD instead of fast/expensive RAM - especially if you are gaming.

Surveyor · 9 May 2011 at 20:31

Predicament said:
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No.

Predicament, when are you going to upload the pictures of the rig in your sig?

I'm beginning to think it doesn't exist.