Clock Speed vs. Cas Latency vs. Size

[jrwizbang]

I was wondering what matters most with ram, and for what sort of application? ie: gaming, rendering, photo editing, etc.

 

[4745454b]

Seeing as you listed completely different tasks, I'm going to say each of those matter in different ways. Except for gaming. Just get 4 to 8GBs of any ram and you'll be fine.

 

[RetiredChief]

Here is an artical from Anand's that looks at the effects of speed/timing (as it pertains to the SB systems). The link points to the "final word', but you can look at the indivdual benches.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/8

 

[jrwizbang]

Best answer selected by Jrwizbang.

 

[jrwizbang]

Thanks for the good and quick replies guys!