HiTechObsessed said:
g-unit, your link shows minimal improvement in gaming for 'high-performance' RAM, now you confused me lol Anand shows a max difference of around 5%, and certainly was not a stable 5% increase. Taking into account regular RAM can be bought at $65 and 'high-performance' RAM can be bought for over twice that, there is no real benefit to it for gaming.
But now I'm confused on his situation as well, I was under the impression he already had that CPU and motherboard when I first read it, but now I don't know lol
Actually RAM is really expensive right now and that's due to a shortage of components in Taiwan. There's no RAM sets that currently retail for $65, and the cheapest ones I've seen are from G.Skill and those retail for around $84 for DDR3 1600. 2133 is around the $90 mark. It won't make a huge difference in the long run you're right there, but at the same time it definitely won't hurt things to have faster RAM speeds the way it did on Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge.