Ivy Bridge memory scaling

[KAZANI]

I've been trying to piece together an IB upgrade for my 6 year old machine and so far I've settled for an i5-3570K + H77 motherboard, however I need your input on the RAM speed. Does going above DDR3-1600 offer considerable performance gains at stock speeds?

 

[Psyside]

No.

 

[ericloewe]

Memory is still the least significant bottleneck in a modern system. Speed should be the last thing you look at, unless you're planning on pushing your CPU a lot

 

[HURRIC4NE]

if you are going to do any type of overclocking... going over 1600 should ease up the process, however if the processor is going to be running at stock speeds, then the 1600 should do just fine...

 

[Psyside]

What? memory freq has nothing to do with LGA 1155 overclocking, you can have 5.0ghz and 2600 mhz np.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Scaling is the same as Sandy. Read the Anandtech review there. Basicly there aint even a bonus above 1333 or maybe even 1066.

 

[KAZANI]

Scaling is the same as Sandy. Read the Anandtech review there. Basicly there aint even a bonus above 1333 or maybe even 1066.

I had already gone through that Sandy review in AT, but thus far the only pertinent testing on the Ivy I could find has been the one @ Tom's, which is rather inconclusive. Anyway, the consensus around here seems to be that, for a PC that won't be overclocked, there is no merit in going over 1600Mhz for RAM. I pulled the trigger for this build a short while a go, including 8GB of Corsair Vengeance. I didn't go for slower RAM because my upgrade cycles are ~5years, hence I need to spec my components in a way that will allow me to more fully utilize the tech platform I'm choosing.

Thanks for the helpful responses, everyone.