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Phædrus2401 · 06-17-2009, 08:41 PM

YOU COULD TRY HITTING CAPSLOCK. THAT MIGHT HELP.

Memory speed really does very little for performance. Having faster memory or lower latency memory will have barely any noticeable effect in games. The lower latency takes up less power, so go with that.

But here's an analogy. Your CPU is like a car wash, and your RAM is like a parking lot. The faster your car wash is, the better since you get more cars washed, but having a faster (more easily navigable?) parking lot only has a little bit of effect. You just want a parking lot that can hold as many cars as you'll need and that can deliver cars as fast as the car wash can take them. You get what I'm saying? You just need RAM that's big [i]enough[i] and fast enough to feed your CPU, which you have. So there's no need to overclock.

06-17-2009, 08:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Phædrus2401 Hardware Tech Team Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New Orleans Posts: 3,834 OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 + Ubuntu 9.04 My System	Re: Latency vs speed in gaming performance YOU COULD TRY HITTING CAPSLOCK. THAT MIGHT HELP. Memory speed really does very little for performance. Having faster memory or lower latency memory will have barely any noticeable effect in games. The lower latency takes up less power, so go with that. But here's an analogy. Your CPU is like a car wash, and your RAM is like a parking lot. The faster your car wash is, the better since you get more cars washed, but having a faster (more easily navigable?) parking lot only has a little bit of effect. You just want a parking lot that can hold as many cars as you'll need and that can deliver cars as fast as the car wash can take them. You get what I'm saying? You just need RAM that's big [i]enough[i] and fast enough to feed your CPU, which you have. So there's no need to overclock. Last edited by Phædrus2401; 06-17-2009 at 08:42 PM.