Speed Matters! Find out why 2400MHz high-speed memory should be your next upgrade with Corsair

tamzzy said:
*points to anandtech review*
2133 c10 is the sweet spot for haswell
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For discrete GPU users, recommending any kit over another is a tough call. In light of daily workloads, a good DDR3-1866 C9 MHz kit will hit the curve on the right spot to remain cost effective. Users with a few extra dollars in their back pocket might look towards 2133 C9/2400 C10, which moves a little up the curve and has the potential should a game come out that is heavily memory dependent.
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Pretty much any roundup of DDR3 and 115x or 2011 platforms using a good spread of different applications will show the most overall balance of performance comes around about 2133 CL9 and 2400CL9/10, not always the best for every situation but is almost always close to or matching the best and most overall wins.
 
I paid £40 for 16GB of Corsair 1600Mhz RAM.

That's what £120 saving?

Fairly sure spending that £120 on a better GPU would see more gains. Absolute garbage.
 
You guys obviously haven't worked in marketing :p

.. But marketing in the right places is important too. Here people are quite harder to trick.
 
If you tune the subs with high perf RAM you can get another few FPS in BF4 etc which need bandwidth. Its not just primary timings at all.
 
If im honest im a little disappointed to see something like this from corsair, especially posted here on OCUK. Its extremely misleading.
 
8 Pack said:
Glade you know best Dice Hunter ;)
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I have to be honest I know nothing about memory speeds etc... in comparison to others around here but you have to be honest now, When Corsair bring out a graph that says "our stuff is fast and will give you x amount of frames more" It just screams "Marketed towards people who don't know any better" but I don't expect you to say anything different if it will go against a company that supplies overclockers.
 
8 Pack said:
Glade you know best Dice Hunter ;)
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To be fair, he probably doesn't (he's even admitted to that) but this advert just stinks of terrible marketing. Gamers are much better off investing the money elsewhere.

32gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 2400mhz is £320. 16gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro Gold 1600MHz is £150. That's £170 for (apparently) 6fps.

But yeah, ok, that's right, maybe you do get that extra fps. At least show it in a proper graph and don't wrap it up in some terrible marketing crap :P

foster grant said:
Reading this I think answers the question as to if I should buy some higher speed Ram
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And you're probably a great example who'd be better off investing the money in another 770 for SLI!
 
So, to sum up what I've read:

Corsair use misleading axis, but find that when using high-end cpu & multi gpus then faster ram helps.

A separate test using much lower end other kit finds it doesn't.

Surely the conclusion is that it's only worth it if you're already pushing the boundaries elsewhere, if you're on a cheap single GPU then yes the money is better spent on that but if you're on a multi-thousand-pound rig then the extra hundred to improve your ram might be worth it.

Which to me seems not at all surprising. Did others read this differently?
 
I bet your competitors are reading this right now and are having right laugh at your expense, that promo your posted in OP is cringe-worthy especially given who your audience is.

8 Pack said:
If you tune the subs with high perf RAM you can get another few FPS in BF4 etc which need bandwidth. Its not just primary timings at all.
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Give it up your just digging yourself a bigger hole. Your not convincing anyone with the information that was posted by OCUK/Corsair in the OP.

I would like to say to the other posters that non of us are perfect and we all make mistakes from time to time OCUK is no different.
 
8 Pack said:
If you tune the subs with high perf RAM you can get another few FPS in BF4 etc which need bandwidth. Its not just primary timings at all.
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I don't recall the promo material talking about timings. It is claiming that higher speed memory enabled by XMP will give what looks like a 5-6FPS increase. If it is a case of honing in the timings for both primary and secondary which gives those results then it should be stated.

OCUK did that for the Samsung Greens which I bought and they never gave that much of an increase in gaming. Now BF4 maybe different but I only ever saw higher speed memory give a significant increase in benching. (1-2FPS) at the most in an aircooled system.
 
[ZiiP]carrot;25711211 said:
To be fair, he probably doesn't (he's even admitted to that) but this advert just stinks of terrible marketing. Gamers are much better off investing the money elsewhere.

32gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 2400mhz is £320. 16gb of Corsair Vengeance Pro Gold 1600MHz is £150. That's £170 for (apparently) 6fps.

But yeah, ok, that's right, maybe you do get that extra fps. At least show it in a proper graph and don't wrap it up in some terrible marketing crap :P



And you're probably a great example who'd be better off investing the money in another 770 for SLI!
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No..cos I have no money ...although I do have a 760 and a 660ti sitting in a box...but I might keep them and use it for either as spare cards or if i were to build a second system
 
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This is pointless though, if you are spending £200 on some RAM then you will have a beefy GPU, if you have a beefy GPU then this RAM is pointless.

If you own a GTX 780TI and need extra FPS in BF4 something is badly broken or you need a new CPU.

I can see the OTT enthusiast buying this just because he can but other than that it seems incredibly pointless.

I also don't appreciate retailers trying this marketing crap to sell products. If someone is smart enough to know your talking **** don't even bother. You'll only further alienate your customers.
 
Dicehunter said:
There was an interesting test Linus from NCIX did not so long ago about the performance of RAM and game FPS, Going from 1333 all the way up to the 3GHZ stuff saw an FPS increase of 1-2 maximum.

But for productivity fast stuff is awesome :)
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It does make a bigger difference with APU's though.
 
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