DDR3 timings

[perdomot]

I'm planning an upgrade next month and moving to DDR3 and am trying to decide if its worth it to get ram at the 7-7-7 timings as opposed to higher latencies. Synthetic benchmarks aren't important to me but real world results in things like encoding are so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[taltamir]

you haven't given us the most important bit of info: money!... how much MORE money are talking about for this improvement in timing?

also, are you an extreme overclocker?

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: perdomot
I'm planning an upgrade next month and moving to DDR3 and am trying to decide if its worth it to get ram at the 7-7-7 timings as opposed to higher latencies.

No, it's not

 

[Absolution75]

Originally posted by: perdomot
I'm planning an upgrade next month and moving to DDR3 and am trying to decide if its worth it to get ram at the 7-7-7 timings as opposed to higher latencies. Synthetic benchmarks aren't important to me but real world results in things like encoding are so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

agree with the last poster, the speed of the memory should only be as much as you need to overclock your processor (if you dont want to oc it, then get the cheapest stuff you can find really. . . ) i've never seen memory maxed out (and hold an OC back) because of two things

1) not an extreme overclocker
2) dividers make things easy for memory

 

[perdomot]

The difference is $20 between the two products which are ddr3 1600. I'm using an unlocked cpu so I wont be OCing the ram. Thanks for the feedback as it corroborates what little info there is out there on performance.

 

[taltamir]

yea, spend your money elsewhere