Should I Buy This Memory?

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Welp I understood basically nothing. I thought memory speed didnt make much difference or at least overclocking memory. I'm upgrading from DDR3-1600. Also, what's Cas 15?
 

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People have always said that overclocking memory and faster memory doesn't increase gaming performance. I'm guessing it has an effect on video editing / exporting? What exactly does higher frequency for memory do?
 

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Dang I was told that higher frequency was only good for APUs. I just watched one of LinusTechTip's videos and it makes more sense now. So the sweet spot for DDR3 is 1600/1866, do you know the "sweet spot" for DDR4 since I see memory from 2133 to like 3666. Too wide a range. Apparently there's even 5GHz memory.. I'm done lol.