Ram speed make a difference with SSD?

[cezalinho]

I have read that RAM speed makes no noticeable difference. However someone said it makes a difference if you are using a SSD. So will things move quicker into the RAM from the SSD if you use 1600mhz over 1333mhz?

 

[walterz]

The highest read speed for an average SSD (SATA3) is ~550 MB/s. The DDR3-1333 transfer speed is near 10000 MB/s.
So i can say that the transfer speed of the SSDs are much lower then the memories. Therefore with DDR3-1600 the PC will not fetch faster datas to the memory.

Walter

 

[Shockeray]

A quote from another post of mine...

The fist number in your RAM timing is your CAS Latency, or CL. It is the one that determines the speed that information can be retrieved from the RAM in clock cycles - of course, if you double your speed (800MHz to 1600MHz) but half your CL (CL 6 to CL 12 [half speed is a number twice as big]) your RAM is going to retrieve information just as fast. The only benefit is that as your MHz goes up, you get more bandwidth.

Hope this helps.

 

[cezalinho]

Thank you