More important? latency or speed

[king of rock]

Looking at these two for VIDEO editing / rendering as well as photo editing (no games)


$45.00 ram Patriot Signature 8GB (12800) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-220-570&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=2#scrollFullInfo



$65.00 ram G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (10600) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231402



motherboard ASRock Z68 PRO3-M

cpu Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge



I assume Patriot is too good a deal to pass up, but I was attracted to the CAS Latency of 7 on G.Skills to 9 on Patriot vs. the 10600 to 12800 speed difference. Bottom line, I appeal to you tuned in folks: which matters more?

 

[chillin15]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3

This and similar articles say that latency is not as important as speed.
Speed above 1600mhz is not worth it.

 

[king of rock]

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