Fastest gaming RAM to fit underneath NH-D14?

[Arfur Schrunkunpecker]

Thanks Rastalovich. Have you ever noticed a difference from using different ram?
(or even more ram)

 

[Christoi]

Have you ever noticed a difference from using different ram?
(or even more ram)

Depends on the usage really. You do see a noticable improvement with things like editing and file compression where there's a lot of transfers going on between the CPU and memory, but otherwise it's not too large. Gaming benefits if you are using an intergrated GPU, but otherwise it makes little to no difference.

Anandtech did some tests on this with Sandy and Ivy, which may be worth going through. It gives a nice comparison of how performance differs by moving through different speeds:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/...333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill

As for capacity, having too much will just result in it being unused. You'll see a large performance hit if you run out of memory, but that's generally not an issue if you have 8GB+.

 

[Arfur Schrunkunpecker]

Thanks Christoi,

I'll check out those tests, too.