Wow, Crucial DDR3 price is low...

Tute said:
Does that really matter to a lot of people though?
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Well, these kits are designed for i7/X58 systems so you're going to be buying a £250 CPU, and a £250 motherboard and then throwing carp RAM into it? It doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

Tute said:
The prices of the "good" kits are silly, tbh.
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I got 12GB of Patriot 1600MHz Cas8 for £235 last week, so it is coming down.
 
WJA96 said:
Well, these kits are designed for i7/X58 systems so you're going to be buying a £250 CPU, and a £250 motherboard and then throwing carp RAM into it? It doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.
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While it's true that the mobo/cpu costs are high for the i7 platform (that's what put me off), cheap ram can still offer a saving. In terms of gaming performance (I appreciate this doesn't matter to everyone), spending an extra £50-100 on the graphics card will almost always (assuming you make sensible choices!) make more difference than spending an extra £50-100 on the RAM (assuming amount of RAM is the same, just faster speed / lower timings).

So for example, I'd take a rig with 6GB of this crucial stuff coupled with a 1GB HD4870 over a rig with 6GB of lower latency memory paired with a 512meg HD4850. Even if the RAM made as much as a 15% difference to subsystem performance (pretty much unheard of), that is dwarfed compared to the gains you get in gaming from the extra GPU power.

Essentially I came to the conclusion a while back (once RAM stopped having much of a limiting impact on overclocking) that posh RAM is only worth it if you are building genuine ninja systems i.e. you already have very high end GPUs etc and so can't really put that cash to use elsewhere in the rig.
 
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D D Danneh said:
Is it worth the extra £30 for the better timings?
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In my opinion, yes. There is no real bandwidth benefit to going to 1600MHz, but the tighter timings make a genuine difference in benchmarks, although it's possibly not so marked in real life.
 
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